The outcome:
Two gondolas with eight audience members were traveling from Piazza St. Marco passing three locations where Madonna´s video Like A Virgin (1984) was filmed; Punta Della Dogana, the fish market behind Rialto Bridge and Ponte Dei Sospiri. When the gondola arrived at each of these locations, I sent a series of images of myself posing like Madonna to the audience´s smartphones. The images were stills from a film shot at that specific location. While the audience scrolled through the images, the gondolier sang a verse of Like a Virgin.
In The night is young and full of STD´s the experience was that of traveling through Venice on a gondola, viewing live-streamed images while listening to Giovanni sing: "I made it through the wilderness. I made it through. I didn´t know how lonely I was until I met you.” The performance here is carried by the flow of affect between Giovanni, the eight Madonnas in the gondola and the audience observing on the banks of the Grand Canal. The performativity can be found in the flow between the images, leaving the audience to fill in the movements between each still. Through my physical absence and by sending the images to the smartphones from afar, I let the audience to become voyeurs, thus I handed the role of the performer over to Giovanni and the audience themselves.