Jordan Strafer, No Bag

December 2, 2020 – January 10, 2021
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Jordan Strafer will occupy PARTICIPANT AFTER DARK with No Bag, an interactive multi-media web-based artwork.

For my school project I took a machete and destroyed everyone's backpacks.

I gave an incoherent speech then gave out my phone number and promised to replace the backpacks.

After it happened, I couldn't believe I made that promise to return the backpacks.

They must have been expensive. Some may have been sentimental and irreplaceable. 

Everyone would be heading home with all their books and no bag!

A fellow student tapped me on the shoulder and said, "I'm going to bang your cake in."

"Shit," I said, "What a stupid way to die."

I lay on the ground, with hands outstretched, ready for my punishment. "I love you," I said. "You've misunderstood me," they said.