{"id":805106,"date":"2020-03-11T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=965509"},"modified":"2020-03-11T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:19:32","slug":"willow-smith-will-trap-herself-in-a-box-for-24-hours-as-performance-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/willow-smith-will-trap-herself-in-a-box-for-24-hours-as-performance-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow Smith Will Trap Herself in a Box for 24 Hours as Performance Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Willow Smith<\/a> will turn her life-long anxiety into performance art by trapping herself in a box for 24 hours. The event will begin at 9 p.m. on Wednesday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Joined by her collaborator Tyler Cole, the 19-year-old will cycle through eight stages of anxiety: paranoia, rage, sadness, numbness, euphoria, strong interest, compassion and acceptance. They\u2019ll spend three hours in each stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not so that people are like, \u2018Oooh!’\u201d Smith told the Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThis is for awareness. The first thing we\u2019re going to be writing on our title wall is something along the lines of: \u2018The acceptance of one\u2019s fears is the first step toward understanding.\u2019 So then you know this is on something real. This is for a real cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea to portray 24 hours of anxiety was born while Smith and Cole were making an album \u2014 aptly titled The Anxiety<\/em> \u2014 that they plan on releasing directly after their performance.<\/p>\n

The event will take place at the MOCA\u2019s Geffen Contemporary, a former police garage. Visitors will watch the duo through a glass wall at 15-minute intervals. After watching, they\u2019ll be guided into a room with a video feed, where they can make donations to mental health organizations. The event will also stream live.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand this is a very sensitive subject,\u201d Smith told The Times<\/em>. She has suffered from anxiety since she was a child. \u201cAnd we don\u2019t want to be like, \u2018Our experience is the experience.\u2019 This is just us expressing our personal experience with this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith released her third LP, Willow<\/em>, last summer. She recently went on a joint tour<\/a> with her brother, Jaden, which concluded on December 19th in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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Willow Smith will turn her life-long anxiety into performance art by trapping herself in a box for 24 hours. The event will begin at 9 p.m. on Wednesday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Joined by her collaborator Tyler Cole, the 19-year-old will cycle through eight stages of anxiety: paranoia, rage, sadness, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 13:30:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}