This is an 8 minute sample of a 38 minute performance in which I stood on the sidewalk of a very busy street in Sydney. I am holding a brick. During this time, the city swirls around me, pedestrians pass staring, smirking, laughing, annoyed, angry, they stop and look on or make comment or just walk by pretending not to notice. What the city does is up to the city. The entire work takes place over the period of time that I am capable of holding the brick, before the weight of it completely exhausts my strength and I am no longer able to hold it up. This work is a development from an early still photographic work in which I posed a figure holding a similar object in the middle of the sidewalk of the city. The idea of that work was to insert an artificial element into the existent context of the city and then photograph the accidents that occurred, under the expectation that the inserted element would cause the existent context to reveal itself in the reactions of the crowd my insert disturbed. While reviewing the many series of shots taken in the shoot, I noticed how my subject seemed like a stone or irritant in the otherwise smoothly flowing stream of passing people and I realised how much better this idea would be served by video than still photography.