Stranger 01
Confident entrance
Left for stranger 02“Show me you just had an idea to save the world.”
One stranger leaves
an instruction for the next.
01 — The chain
An idea becomes
someone else’s gesture.
First, perform the instruction you inherited. Then write what the next stranger will do.
00 — The seed
It had to start
somewhere.
Daniel wrote the first instruction. The first stranger was told it came from the person before her.
She didn’t know. A small fiction to begin the chain.
“How would you enter a room if everyone inside had been waiting for you?”
Stranger 02
Saving the world
Left for stranger 03“Do the most 2016 pose you can.”
Stranger 03
The most 2016 pose
Left for stranger 04“Your grandma is going down an inflatable waterslide.”
Stranger 04
Grandma on a waterslide
Left for strangers 05“You are dragging your huge dog back from a squirrel.”
Strangers 05
A huge dog and a squirrel
Left for stranger 06One final instruction was written. Nobody performed it.
The Next Stranger is a participatory portrait project by Daniel Hunter.
This work explores the question: “When strangers talk to each other, what do they say?”
In Madison Square Park, each participant received an instruction written by a previous unknown stranger. They embodied the message, then left a new instruction behind for the next.
The result is a chain of public choreography: part portrait, part handwriting, part chance. Every gesture is both an ending and a beginning.
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