Like Tilda Swinton did before her, Willow Smith will appear in a glass case in the name of art and music.
The musician and cohost, with her mom, Jada Pinkett-Smith, of Red Table Talk has planned an installation at Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles with her creative collaborator, Tyler Cole. The two will be contained in a glass box inside the museum, starting Wednesday night at 9 p.m., where they will experience eight emotional states associated with anxiety for three hours per emotion, in public. Cole and Smith will go through paranoia, rage, sadness, numbness, euphoria, strong interest, compassion, and acceptance. Visitors can watch them cycle through these feelings for 15 minutes through one side of the glass—the other three walls will be draped with canvas so the two can write affirmations and paint while they're confined.
The performance-art piece partly serves as promotion for Smith and Cole's latest album, aptly titled The Anxiety. The record will drop right after the 24-hour installation ends. But Smith told the Los Angeles Times that the main purpose of the installation was to provide commentary on the process of accepting anxiety as a fact of life, and even welcoming it.