Worries Bash: Closing Ceremony

Worries Bash is an exhibition at Proof Gallery in South Boston that centers around an electroacoustic piñata full of worries. The show is up through Friday, June 15th (7–9pm) when it will conclude with a ceremonial collective discharge. Any worries recorded on http://worries.io will be part of the performance. Come bash!

Worrisome shifts in the USA’s politics triggered our interest in collecting worries. Leaders are drawing the culture inward while souring relationships with longstanding allies. The emotionalization of events by the media is engendering worries that swirl inside us, trapping us in manufactured anxieties. We have been asking people in our communities what they are worried about and are finding that they have a plethora of concerns at the ready. This project is an opportunity to collect various types of worries and consider similarities in emotional cycles across communities. There are many social situations where it is unacceptable to express these thoughts and emotions, yet we all have them. This exhibition provides an audio portrait of hundreds of recorded worries emanating from fragile papier-mâché piñatas. Attendees will be able to bring different worries into focus via their physical interactions with these sculptures and to help bear the brunt of the worries collectively. Can the destruction of these worry vessels create space for clarity?

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