PHOTO VIA BRIAN FELDMAN
Performance artist Brian Feldman (Instagram) will perform inside a playable claw machine for 16 hours on Father’s Day, June 21, bringing back one of his most infamous performance art pieces 15 years after its premiere.
“The Skill Crane Kid: 15th Anniversary” returns to Stardust Video & Coffee, the same location where Feldman first performed the piece on February 6, 2011, and will run from 8 a.m. to midnight with no breaks.
Feldman, described by Orlando Weekly as “Orlando’s greatest living performance artist,” will provide “inside assistance” from inside the claw machine to ensure every player who drops 50 cents into the coin slot leaves a winner.
The project was inspired by a 2004 incident in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where a 7-year-old climbed inside a claw machine at a supermarket while his father was using a payphone. When asked by news reporters why he did it, the child replied, “I just, like, wanted to go in there.” To which Feldman apparently agreed.
This will be Feldman’s first scheduled performance in Orlando in seven years. His last scheduled performance was The Feldman Dynamic: 15th Anniversary in 2019, coincidentally also at Stardust Video & Coffee. In May 2024, Feldman unexpectedly performed in eight hours of Martin Dockery’s 24HR INESCAPABLE at Orlando Fringe, helping break his own record for the longest Orlando Fringe show in history. The previous record was Feldman’s Fringe of Nature (2010) at 16 hours.
The performance is free to view, with plays costing 50 cents. Viewers are encouraged to bring quarters.
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