Setting:
A room like a glass box. Cold white lighting.
A pairs of white chairs and a white desk in the middle of the room.
A white bed at the corner.
Two performers.
This performance would last for 24 hours in the glass room.
A - very emotional, handling different props
B - The doctor, reading a file, speak as a robot
7: 40
A: How do you feel lately?
B: I don’t know. Does it mean I am getting better?
A: I don’t know. Let’s see. How do you feel?
B: I need to sleep [lie back to bed]
[A continue reading the file.]
8:00
A: How do you feel?
B:It’s not a good time to wake up yet…
[A continue reading the file.]
8:30
A: How do you feel?
B:I can get up right now but I also don’t feel like getting up. I wonder how my friends get up every day.
[A continue reading the file.]
9:00
A: How do you feel?
B:sh*t I’m about to be late again. I always feel sorry for not getting things on time. [get up]
[A continue reading the file.]
9:30
A: How do you feel?
B:Anxious. Sorry for not completing everything on time. Again, sorry for forgetting things all the time.
[A continue reading the file.]
10:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Who cares? I question. Maybe what I do only matters to those who worry about me.
[A continue reading the file.]
10:38
A: How do you feel?
B:Fuzzy. Also feel hard to concentrate on whatever’s going on. I keep adjusting the light to make the scene more similar to the one in my memory.
[A continue reading the file.]
11:00
A: How do you feel?
B:The shooting ends faster than I thought. Maybe if I keep working like this I would get something done?
[A continue reading the file.]
11:30
A: How do you feel?
B: No. I’m tired and life is confusing. I don’t want to think about substances that much. But I wonder how others would see my addictive behavior. Seems true that consumption does not help with sobriety.
[A continue reading the file.]
12:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Nothing. It’s not the time for sleep yet.
[A continue reading the file.]
12:30
A: How do you feel?
B:Excited. Just ordered the pair of boots I’ve been looking for for a few weeks.
[A continue reading the file.]
13:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Anxiety hits me again. Why am I always not spending money when I am supposed to work?
[A continue reading the file.]
13:30
A: How do you feel?
B:Fell asleep again. I guess this is my way of coping with approaching deadlines?
[A continue reading the file.]
14:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Anxious but doing nothing. I guess I’ll go back to sleep.
[A continue reading the file.]
14:30 Maybe having that book I haven’t finished by the pillow would help?
[A continue reading the file.]
15:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Like always. Disappointed. Having the book by the pillow does not mean I would choose reading instead of sleep. Why am I always doing this?
[A continue reading the file.]
15:30
A: How do you feel?
B:Intrigued. I had a very nice nightmare earlier. It was about some kind of epidemic. But I could barely remember it now. Gosh. How am I supposed to finish the shooting if I keep forgetting my dreams???
[A continue reading the file.]
16:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Still not coming back to me. I hate myself.
[A continue reading the file.]
16:30
A: How do you feel?
B:Just realized that I haven’t eaten anything since last night. I should get food. At least eating counts as something done by me.
[A continue reading the file.]
17:00
A: How do you feel?
B:I need Korean fried chicken but Kimchi Garden is not open till 5:30...f**k why do I always forget about things?
[A continue reading the file.]
17:30
A: How do you feel?
B:So excited, Kimchi Garden’s open!!!
[A continue reading the file.]
18:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Turns out Kimchi Garden’s closed today so I ordered from Berkeley Social Club. Hopefully their chicken’s good as well. By the time I wait I finished the book by my bed. This counts as something done. I can face my life again.
[A continue reading the file.]
18:30
A: How do you feel?
B:As expected, food never let me down.
[A continue reading the file.]
19:00
A: How do you feel?
B:So mad at myself. Why am I wasting my time again? I should start working. The scene in my dream is gradually fading.
[A continue reading the file.]
19:30
A: How do you feel?
B:I am feeling better now. Since I’m not gonna sleep tonight, it would mean that I will have 7 extra hours to work, even if I don’t work at all in the end.
[A continue reading the file.]
20:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Telling myself RELAX. I will start working some time.
[A continue reading the file.]
20:30
A: How do you feel?
B:Nothing. Time flies. Like always.
[A continue reading the file.]
21:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Nothing. But I should shower.
[A continue reading the file.]
21:30
A: How do you feel?
B:Physical condition always overwhelms emotions. I think I’ve had too much chicken tonight.
[A continue reading the file.]
22:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Nothing.
[A continue reading the file.]
22:30
A: How do you feel?
B:My stomach is getting better now. Simple things like this make me happy.
[A continue reading the file.]
23:00
A: How do you feel?
B: Scared. There’s only 1 hour left of today.
[A continue reading the file.]
23:30
A: How do you feel?
B:half an hour left.
[A continue reading the file.]
00:00
A: How do you feel?
B: Anxious again. Maybe I should have some tea.
[A continue reading the file.]
00:30
A: How do you feel?
B: I should start working, but I keep being distracted by everything other than work.
[A continue reading the file.]
1:00
A: How do you feel?
B:A little bit at ease since I am working now.
[A continue reading the file.]
1:30
A: How do you feel?
B:I am really worried right now because I have been writing so much about my emotions and I noticed that most of them turn out to be so terribly negative, unreasonable and annoying. This is not how people seek attention.
[A continue reading the file.]
2:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Working does calm me down.
[A continue reading the file.]
2:43
A: How do you feel?
B:I’m a bit distracted...my head’s getting dizzy…my awkward moments keep coming back on me.
[A continue reading the file.]
3:00
A: How do you feel?
B:Wow. It’s time to record my feelings again. Maybe I should stop thinking about sleep and start drinking.
[A continue reading the file.]
3:30
A: How do you feel?
B:I don’t know what I am doing with this list. I look so terribly malfunctioning here. I hate it. I wonder how those great artists in the world live? How do they feel satisfied with art?
[A continue reading the file.]
4:00
A: How do you feel?
B:eyes dry and self-loathing.
[A continue reading the file.]
4:26
A: How do you feel?
B: My heart is racing. I closed my eyes to nap but a sense of insecurity submerges me.
[A continue reading the file.]
4:59
A: How do you feel?
B: Working has got me lost of time. But I feel great.
[A continue reading the file.]
5:28
A: How do you feel?
B:I finished the shot in my dream. It's healing for me. And I am super tired and desperate somehow.
[A continue reading the file.]
6:00
A: How do you feel?
B: Maybe it is because of the tea, maybe it is because of art. I feel so energetic right now. I guess there is a reason why therapists diagnose everyone in their 20s bipolar. I should do this again.
[A continue reading the file.]
6:41
A: How do you feel?
B:I lost track of time. But I really do think I’m living now. Happily. The sun has arised, but I’m feeling a little bit sad.
[A continue reading the file.]
7:00
A: How do you feel?
B:I should really go to sleep. Daylight is making me so anxious right now.
[A continue reading the file.]
7:30
A: How do you feel?
B:I don’t want to see the daylight. I’m panicking right now i guess?
A: Good. You’re making progress now.
24 Hours of Turbulence
