Purge

In 2011, Brian Lobel played a brutal game of friendship maintenance. Over four days of performance in public cafés, Brian talked about his 1,342 Facebook friends for one minute each, after which time a jury of strangers decided whether he should ‘keep’ or ‘delete’ them. The deleting was real, the pace maniacal and the decisions final. Drawing from 50 hours of performance and 800 emails from angry, amused and intrigued friends, Purge explores our relationship with social media.