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06.01.2009
Everyone in the subway car shaves his or her head completely. An individual ziplock bag for collecting the hair is provided to each passenger. An attendant then passes through the car and collects all the bags. As long as each person’s hair is kept separate there is no need for names or numbers.
Then, on a large canvas, the attendant sets the hairs tuft by tuft with tweezers, perhaps using melted wax as an adhesive. The attendant is careful to keep each head of hair distinct: the borders may touch, but the hairs from different individuals must not mingle. The finished piece should give the impression of a quilt of scalps.
Once the canvas is hung several pairs of stethoscopes hang from hooks beside it, so that viewers can listen for the thoughts under each patch of hair. Viewers may write down the thoughts they hear or assign names to the squares on the canvas: the names they had when they were part of a person, and the new names they acquired once they gained their independence.