A Commentary on Alison Kobayashi’s “Say Something, Bunny!”
I found Alison Kobayashi’s work very innovative due to her ability to tell a story of family and life in such a unique style of performance that encourages audience participation. A core part of her creative process involved deep listening to recorded voices as a means of establishing character. In nost creative projects, it is the other way around and I enjoy the fact thay she goes against the norms or direction of the common process. She also used audience participation in a way that allows for the audience to passively become part of the story. Instead of vocally taking part, each audience member represents a character in the story. This method doesn’t require much from the audience while it still keeps them engaged. What I still feel is the most interesting aspect of her project was how it began from using lost information or history from an obselete device. Usually projects like this one where research is done to discover the source of this information are seen fro...