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Collaborative performance with Dennis-Hippensteel Family, February 2011.
For full documentation send a Facebook request to Neena Eureka

Cheryl Dennis was looking for a new vacuum cleaner in the FREE section of Craigslist. Instead she found an advertisement offering "Art in Your House." Over Taco Tuesday at the DenHip family home, we discussed my proposal for a weeklong interactive performance which I would spend hiding in their house. The agreement was that I was to remain always playfully visible in a protracted game of hide-and-seek. I was interested in constructing a playful exploration of the artist's 'presence' in her own socially-oriented work. Far from observing effectively like some kind of 'fly on on the wall' documentarian, my presence would remain absurdly apparent and synthetic, at times whimsical, obtrusive, exhilirating and eventually—as any enduring game—predictable and even tiresome. Over the course of the week, narratives and interactions began to evolve out of my control as family members started to command the performance. Weeks and months after my "residency" at the DenHip house, they continued to stage performative actions beyond anything I could have conceived of. It is unclear if the performance will ever truly end, and whether or not it needs to...

My performing persona became fused with that of the malfunctional vacuum cleaner Cheryl had acquired concurrently online, eventually yielding a hybrid character called Neena Eureka. Near the end of the week, I also discovered that Cheryl maintained a very active presence on Facebook, through which she had been logging the family's experiences in posts, photos and video—an optimal venue for sharing these experiences with their own community. Interested in the discussion this forum had created, I decided to archive the entire performance under a Facebook identity created for my fictional character. To access full documentation of the project, please send a Facebook friend request to Neena Eureka.