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Haircuts by Children the best of Performa07 Our social acupuncture project Haircuts by Children has been declared the best of Performa 07 by ARTINFO and is rapidly becoming Canada's most happening performance art export. Following the incredible success in Toronto in the spring 2006, Los Angeles in the fall of 2006, Birmingham, UK in spring 2007 and Portland, Oregon and Dublin in Fall of 2007, New York finally fell in love with childish haircuts. Video clip here. Haircuts by Children was hosted by Art in General and featured Ms. Moulinos and Ms. Hodges' students at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School 131 in Manhattan. Haircuts by Children invites the consideration of children as creative and competent individuals whose aesthetic choices can be trusted. The idea that kids should be allowed to cut our hair evokes the same leap of faith, courage and understanding required to grant children deeper citizenship rights. For many it is actually less terrifying to contemplate allowing kids to vote! In the future, every child will be given a pair of scissors and invited to shape our destinies. In the future, every child will be granted full citizenship rights; encouraged to vote, run for office and drive streetcars. In the future, children will teach and adults will learn; a playground will be built on every battlefield; and candy will be free. In the future, children will be powerful creatures able to cross the street without looking both ways, and hold their breath underwater forever and ever and ever. So, while Haircuts by Children is a performance for kids, it's actually for the benefit of who they will become; for the adults who have to deal with the consequences of eighteen years of political disenfranchisement. Haircuts by Children: a performance about the future. |
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