Five Minutes of Fame from Rebecca Collins on Vimeo.
As a response to the debates surrounding ‘participation’ in the art world, Rebecca Louise Collins proposes an installation called ‘Five Minutes of Fame’ or ‘Cinco Minutos de Fama’.
The fabulous ‘Donna’, Rebecca’s alter-ego and friend of Paris Hilton, moves within public space armed with a pink karaoke machine. Stopping in town squares, outside bars, in shopping malls, she will sing hoping that those around her will join in. A chance to sing your heart out - for love, against the recession or simply for the sake of singing.
The piece ends when the artist looses her voice, or looses faith that someone will join her.
‘Five minutes of fame/cinco minutos de fama’ is a subtle and fun critique that plays on our obsessions with being famous and with celebrity culture. Do we want to participate and be seen? Or do we prefer to look away and go unobserved?
Five Minutes of Fame will feature as part of The Hub, a festival of site works at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on 6th February 2014
Featured as part of Los Artistas Del Barrio, Madrid, 2012
