Public shoe shining has a quality that is at once provocative, voyeuristic, problematic and ritualistic. As such, it is an act laden with cultural references to subservience and superiority, otherness, and racism. For the duration of the festival, Hoyer will work as a shoeshine girl dressed in traditional German (Bavarian) garb. 'Get your shoes shined and photographed by German immigrant Alexa Hoyer. Drop off or while you wait'