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EVERYTHING HAPPENS IN A PICNIC

first performed on April 20, 2014
Han River, Seoul, South Korea
performed once in 2014

ERIC SCOT NELSON / YOKO ISHIGURO

Korea / USA / UK / Japan
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EVERYTHING HAPPENS IN A PICNIC
ERIC SCOT NELSON / YOKO ISHIGURO

“Everything Happens in a Picnic” is an outdoor performance event which happens precisely in the format of a picnic—we go to a park, choose a nice spot, wait for the late comers, get bored of waiting for them, open a bottle, drink, open a basket, eat sandwiches, open plastic bags you grabbed from a corner shop, eat the unhealthiest snacks, start Frisbee and badminton, notice the text message from the late comers who has got lost totally and hopelessly, some strangers come and ask where their dog is gone, someone starts to play the guitar, people sings to the guitar but nobody remembers the lyrics of the song properly, but nobody cares about it, some people gets bitten by a mosquito and scratch all the parts of their bodies restlessly, someone spills an amount of beer on the picnic mat and make a pool of beer on it and someone unaware sits down on it and scream, a dog barks to it, a couple kiss while their bikes are being stolen, the sun is setting and the temperature goes down and we go home. “Everything Happens in a Picnic” is a picnic-specific performance event in which each individual performer will be installed in a section of the picnic events to show the picnic-specific performances. The performances are very small-scaled. The audience join the picnic on a whenever-they-can basis with a bottle or food, and leave in the same way. The duration of the pieces depends on the artists but the picnic itself is in the afternoon, only while the picnickers can have the nice sun and heat.