LINDA DUVALL Visual and Media Artist

Artist Linda Duvall invited visitors to her portable booth to vicariously become part of quirky urban narratives, through retelling stories that she told them. Each visitor gradually experienced these stories as their own through the process of expanding on and completing the story provided.

Duvall told each visitor a personal story based on some aspect of living in a large metropolitan setting, such as overhearing crucial details about her own family in a public washroom, etc. She asked them to tell the story back to her as if it had happened to them. Then she gradually asked them more details, like ‘So did you go out of the cubicle and tell the person who you were?’ Or ‘So why did you happen to be in the Gladstone that night?’. All the stories had supposedly occurred in some familiar nearby location.