Everything, nothing, something, always (walla!)

Unrestricted “Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!)” is a performance-based installation that is comprised of a one-act theater piece repeated nine times over a three hour period. Each of its nine iterations varies slightly as a necessary result of its serial repetition. The document for which this abstract serves to synopsize and explain, otherwise known as my thesis, is comprised of the written script for the performance and is titled “Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!).” It should be considered a separate work, or an augmented index of the performance, as the entirety of the performed text has been semi-obliterated by a double strikethrough and subordinated by the addition of dozens of footnotes. This intentional obfuscation points to the central concerns of the two works: a distinct distrust of both certainty and the ideal of truth; the imprecision of language by means of the myriad ways it can be delivered and understood; and the ways in which the polyphonous references that influence a work become the primary terrain for an articulation of confusion as not only an essential condition for artistic production but also its subject.