Upon entering the modern art museum, there was a sign up to participate in a piece of performance art. Most people seemed to ignore it, a few commented that a blank sign up form was a genius art piece in itself. Liam decided to be bold and actually sign himself up.
He didn’t think much about it as he walked through the halls, looking at the various abstract paintings and sculptures. When he finally entered a room with an installation made of lights, he felt woozy; within seconds, he was passed out on the floor.
He awoke on a stage with more of the installation of lights around him. He could whispers of curiosity from a crowd that had gathered, hearing comments about “his reaction” and something about “gender.” As he began to pick himself up he could feel heavy heeled shoes on his feet and a tight constricting dress on his body. At first, he thought the performance art piece had dressed him up as a woman. But it took only a few more moments to realize it was much more extreme than that -- he had actually become a woman!
It only continued to get more surreal as his own body walked out on stage, speaking of the gender disparity in the arts, about how the performance art piece had been funded, and how more funding was anticipated now that “she” was in a man’s body. He had swapped bodies with the artist? And it didn’t sound like she was planning to give him his body back...
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