Democracy Guest List

Cultural Prophylactics was a performance project conducted in 2009. Please see the introduction, demographics, priorities, honesty & integrity, the survey and some images, and feel free to enjoy this brief overview.

Between corruption, branding, and community resources, 42% of respondents felt branding to be the most influential over public health; 31% chose corruption, and 26% selected community resources.

Asked to rank the following in order of relevance to public health, respondents assigned numerical values that placed their priorities in the following (descending) order:

1.  Open access to contraception
2.  TIE: The Plague and Health care
3.  Birth rates of developed nations
4.  Homelessness
5.  Democracy
6.  Lifespan and age expectancy
7.  Well paid doctors
8.  The Prison-Industrial Complex
9.  Independent media
10. Media conglomeration
11. Affordable or free museums
12. Arts & culture funding
13. Fat people at the beach
14. Cake and pie access
15. Hot nurses
16. The TV Show House
17. Spitting on the sidewalk
18. America’s Next Top Model (one write-in response read, “Anorexia!”)