B l i n d T r u s t P a r t I

Performative Relics. Summer 2017. Chicago IL, USA.

Post a semi-restorative psychiatric hospitalization the enduring power of art was considered and foraged into an attempt to mend trust, restore a sense of safety, and explore the boundaries of compassion.

A dawn to dusk 12 hour durational performance in collaboration with John Lincoln Vogel. Comprised of following a set of scores written by Gutz in the aftermath and paired with a selection of drawings + mind streams out of Vogel's abandoned sketchbook made during the leading up to. The work is the innocent creative effort to reframe the trauma of serving as both sufferer and supporting witness to one heartbreaking process of psychic disintegration from reality.

Vogel and Gutz took turns leading the other blindfolded through some of Chicago's neighborhoods while dressed in costumes made for the other in each of their unique vision of beauty, safety, and terror.