Compatibility Quiz
Compatibility Quiz started out as a performance. We dressed as different characters and went to different bars to see what happened. When people asked us questions, we were honest about who we were and what we were doing. We told them we are artists wearing wigs and doing an experiment. We would end up talking to people that matched our stereotype. Sara,” the blonde”, would have men swooning over her…looking for a cheap date. I was the business woman and spoke mostly to lawyers, architects, therapists etc. and Alicia didn’t have a lot of visitors since she was a little standoffish but would mostly talk to creative types. Who knew that when we hit the streets I would end up in a 7 year relationship with a therapist. We had a shared interest in human psychology…which is what this performance was about. –Kelly
“Picture this...three young ladies enter a bar: a buxom blonde in a plunging top and miniskirt, a brunette in business attire and pearls, and an auburn-tressed creative in colorful clothes and scarf. Now, imagine how other bar-goers might interact with these women. Are their conversations similar? Is each woman treated with the same attention, courtesy, and respect? What role might a person’s preconceptions play in these interactions? The sisters devised this covert, social experiment to prompt all of these questions and more. They hit the town dressed extremely differently from one another and let the interactions unfold. Compatibility Quiz is TRIIIBE’s staged, photographic homage to that real-life performance, one that plays on assumptions about appearance, approachability, female stereotypes, and sexuality. Which woman do you think received the most attention?”
Collaborators
Alicia, Kelly and Sara Casilio,
Cary Wolinsky, Rae Bertellotti,
Jayne Bowe and George Cooper (Mount Blue bistro and bar) and Yari Wolinsky (feedback/muscles/set-up)
Capture date: 2007
First finished print: 2010
Archival inkjet print
Sizes:
26.25 x 35 inches
33.75 x 45 inches
55.75 x 42 inches
© Triiibe Partners 2010