Performance: The Art of Daily Life, Performance/Talk at The New York Presbyterian Hospital ©2001

As part of the show Reaching the Heights, Beck and Calvo were asked to give a talk about their work. The show, organized by NurtureArt took place in the Milstein Building of the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, which is heavily trafficked by medical staff and patients. Beck and Calvo used this situation as an opportunity to integrate themselves into the environment and make a correlation between doctors as healers of the body and artists as potential healers of perception. Beck and Calvo dressed in white lab coats and walked through the hospital carrying 2 small TV sets in their hands and pushing a color TV on a cart. Their ID badges also had the image of the eye and their names. This was quite confusing and fascinating to the hospital staff and patients who were curious why these doctors had an eye as a patient. The walk ended at the gallery and led into a discussion of performance art.