MattKing
Moderator
Two responses here, both of which originate from my Dad who retired from Canadian Kodak after 36 years of working there.
Quote (as best as I can remember it): "There have been far more great photographs taken with the simplest of box cameras than all the expensive SLRs and professional cameras put together"
(he may have said Instamatics, rather than box cameras).
Story: Every year, Vancouver has a large fair, with agricultural roots, called the Pacific National Exhibition ("PNE"). There used to be lots of buildings, filled with all sorts of commercial and other displays. Kodak would have a large booth every year, filled with people there to help you with your photography. The people in the marketing division (which my father was part of, even though he was lab based) would staff the booth. Dad spent a lot of time in that booth over the years.
One of the features of the booth was that above it they had large screens on which 35mm, 828, 127 and 126 slides were projected. Most of the slides were taken by Kodak employees and they ranged over a wide variety of subjects, although there were certainly lots of photographs that would be considered "snapshots". I know there were a few photos of me projected on those screens over the years (most likely Kodachrome II in 828 format from my Dad's Bantam RF). One famously memorable shot helped prove in my mind that if a young boy gets seasick in a 14 foot fishing boat, Kodachrome reveals that one does, indeed, look green.
In some ways, those projected slide shows might seem banal, but in general, they were very interesting, because there was so much humanity up there (along with a fair share of sunsets, etc.).
Your performance piece might lack the irony that so many performance pieces seem to aspire to - it might be too interesting in it's own right.
Matt