The Fang family is Caleb, Camille, Annie and Buster. Annie and Buster are Child A and Child B. When you’re used in your parents’ art, it doesn’t make sense for you to have a name.
For Caleb and Camille, it’s all about the art. You create something that forces people to respond and then you get out while they are still processing the destruction. Their art is a series of performances pieces, sometimes documented with cameras, as they disrupt normal life to bring meaning into the moment.
That’s how they see it, anyway. For Annie and Buster, it’s horrible and confusing and wonderful and theirs.
Growing up, you are your parents. You like what they like because you don’t know that there are other options. You like the music they play because they like it. When they tell you that it’s important that you stand in public, telling lies about a sick dog while playing instruments you don’t know how to use, you stand in public, telling lies about a sick dog while playing instruments you don’t know how to use. When you parents begin to boo you, you know that this is art and it’s important and that nothing works without you.
But as Annie and Buster get older, they become more and more frustrated with their parents’ art. Annie especially begins to see that she will be unable to live as Child A and has to get out and on her own. Buster is more of a peacemaker, wanting to leave with Annie while at the same time not letting his parents down.
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