The refreshing part of being one on one, Brooks said, is that it takes the preciousness away from performance. At the same time, “I feel like there’s so much fear in public,” they said. These kinds of art projects could be interventions, happenings that open up ways to just be a little bit more courageous in public — and caring. “We actually have to work our capacity to be with the needs of others,” Bakst said. I feel like this frame can be an invitation to work that muscle.”

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Persons: Brooks, ”, “, Julia Gladstone —, It’s, Bakst, Lauren Berlant’s, Gladstone, ” Bakst Locations: York