Democracy Guest List

Cultural Prophylactics was a performance project conducted in 2009. For background information, please see the following sections: introduction, demographics, priorities, honesty & integrity, public health, and the survey and some images. Also feel free to enjoy this brief overview.

Respondents were asked to agree or disagree with a series of questions, and the ratio of favored responses to disfavored responses is listed following their answer, except in cases where the answers were unanimous (with a 100% correspondence rate) or inconclusive (containing a 1:1 ratio).

• Do you consider yourself a commercial artist? No (2:1).
• Can everyone make art? Yes (10:1).
• Is culture inevitable? Yes (10:1).
• Does the future look good? Yes (2:1).
• Do you think your voice counts? Yes (5:1).
• Do you watch television? Yes (4:1).
• Would you donate money to a political campaign? Yes (2:1).
• Would you donate money a youth dance troupe? Yes (3:1).
• Would you buy a candy bar from a kid on the street selling them for his basketball
•             team? Yes (3:1).
• Would you donate money to support your friend’s art project? Yes (22:1).
• Is all money dirty? Inconclusive.
• Is benefiting from the labor of others dirty? Yes (2.5:1).
• Is benefiting from the labor of others without their consent dirty? Yes (5:1).
• Does everyone really “gotta eat”? Yes (9:1).