Attention test 2014

I feel driven in a way to transcend beyond the parameters of my usual mediums and return to a child's perspective of the world. To enjoy the object in it's simplistic movement, to play, so I am finding those objects (umbrellas,  bikes, music box) that transport me to this place of deep feeling.  To draw attention to the unusual and as some would perceive as perplexing. With reference to that idea I have been experimenting with a sequence of performances. The first of which  is called "Attention Test" . In this performance I perform in different public locations and social situations ringing a service bell , I then wait and observe reactions and then leave.  I am seduced by the idea of objectification in the sense of ' the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing' (thefreedictionary.com).  My findings were,  the attention test only worked in two ways the obscure,(people could not identify where the sound was coming from) and confrontational (when you approach the person directly). Any thing in between these parameters appeared to draw little or no attention.