Purge

Part game show, part lecture and part love story exploring modern friendships.

In 2011-2012, Brian Lobel played a brutal game of friendship maintenance in which he asked strangers to decide which of his Facebook friends to keep or delete. 50 hours of performance and 800 emails from angry, amused and intrigued friends later, Purge explores how we emotionally and socially interact with digital media.

“Brian Lobel makes endearingly brave confessional work” The Economist