1. Kevin Cheng, Ralph Guerrero & Cliff Simmons
An Exploration of Human Existence and Unfounded Projection of Identification
Kevin Cheng, Ralph Guerrero & Cliff Simmons

2. Before delving into what this exploration means or entails, let us do three things:

3. FIRST THING: Try to come up with as many words as possible to describe the figure on the right in the photograph.

4. SECOND THING: Try to come up with as many words as possible to describe the figure in this photograph.

5. THIRD AND FINAL THING: Notice and think about the difference between the number of words your were able to come up with for the first figure and number of words your were able to come up with for the second figure.

6. “There are two kinds of people in this world; those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t” Robert Benchley’s Law of Distinction If Benchley is correct, than why were we able to come up with so many words for the two figures shown previously?

7. These are the ideas that will be explored by Kevin Cheng, Ralph Guerrero and Cliff Simmons. This exploration will be conducted and expressed in an interactive performance piece by which the audience in the space of the performance will have elements of their perceived identity taken from them in real time. In doing this, we hope to reveal/prove two hypotheses that not only mean a lot to us, but also that we feel would contribute to society’s (and hopefully the greater world’s) sense of shared humanity.

8. The two hypotheses are:
One cannot know another person’s geographical place of birth, religious alignment, moral compass, etc by simply looking at them. Geographical place of birth, religious alignment, moral compass, and other such icons of perception have no universal meaning; they are all within the realm of local minds and are not shared with all human beings.

9. Sense we have some time remaining, let us now be sure that this artistic experiment isn’t just some aimless and impractical pursuit.

10. What is the religion of this human being?

11. What is the religion of this human being
What is the religion of this human being? ANSWER: JEWISH Link to hypothesis a: one cannot know a person’s religion by looking at their form. Link to hypothesis b: the idea of religion only has meaning in local minds. One idea of religion is not shared by all humans.

12. What is the national origin of this human being?

13. What is the national origin of this human being
What is the national origin of this human being? ANSWER: SOUTH AFRICA Link to hypothesis a: one cannot know a person’s geographical origin by looking at their form. Link to hypothesis b: the idea of a nation was originally stemmed by the West.

14. Other support of our hypotheses:

15. Other support of our hypotheses:

16. CONCLUSION Our art piece will be both an interactive performance piece as well as a live experiment conduction by which the audience in the space of said performance will have elements of their perceived identity taken from them in real time. In doing this, we hope to reveal/prove that a person’s face and outer appearance has little to no correlation to their inner qualities, values, and beliefs. We also hope to reveal/prove that such perceived relics are locally meaningful, and have no significance outside the boundary of the preceptor's culture.