Imagine zeroing in on your worst personality flaws by traveling down a rabbit hole of subcategories. Maybe you’re a depressive, demoralized, timid, spineless bully. Or what about an aggressive, selfish, self-absorbed, bougie hypochondriac?
These are just a couple of diagnoses patients — a.k.a. audience members — can receive at the performance art psych experiment“Change Your Mind,”now returning after a spring run, from collective Say Nothing and Leave. Here, you don’t just enter a faux clinic and take a quiz to identify your personality pathology; you ingest a capsule, don a pair of brain-scrambling goggles and undergo a procedure to zap your shortcoming right out of your noggin.
As tongue-in-cheek as the whole thing is, perfect for audience members who enjoy bantering in character with artists, it also has some serious aims: asking you to confront who you really are, at core, and accept it.