Published by Karen Correia Da Silva
Filled under: CANADADA, Performance Art

Stay quiet while I party

“POLICE STATE”
Dundas Square | Monday June 28th, 2010

30 police officers attended this performance, searched our bags, and warned us about “anarchists” while telling us that they’d have to arrest us if we began to chant.

Police State | Starla Bontecou and the Gentleman | June 29th, 2010 | Dundas Square | Toronto, ON

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5 Comments

  1. Grant wrote:
    July 3, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    BAD fucking ASS, Starla.

  2. Mike wrote:
    July 3, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    What if you started to chant something nice about police? Bureaucracy blows. This is a really ballsy performance, Starla/Karen. I’m proud to know you.

  3. Paden wrote:
    July 8, 2010 at 10:45 am

    Very poignant.

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