O.T.C.
2012

Part of the 2nd Floor Rear art festival in Chicago, O.T.C. was a lighthearted, collaborative and participatory performance that invited the audience to fill out a patient form listing tongue-in-cheek maladies, like “cabin fever,” “hangover,” and “social awkwardness.” Artists Sarah Umles and Cameron DuBois would then create custom prescriptions, filling orange pill bottles with small found and/or handmade objects intended to remedy the participant’s symptoms. The bottles were labeled with instructions for use and handed back to the participants as an over-the-counter piece of art they could take home. The performance demonstrated how we as humans imbue objects with meaning and often call upon the therapeutic properties of seemingly mundane things.