Performance artist Brian Feldman plans to spend the day in a skill-crane machine at Stardust Video

The Skill Crane Kid Credit: courtesy

This Father’s Day is set to get crucially weirder than the usual dad-joke onslaught courtesy of Orlando-built performance artist Brian Feldman. Feldman returns to his former hometown to reprise his performance piece The Skill Crane Kid on the occasion of its 15th anniversary at — where else? — Stardust Video and Coffee.

The premise is simple, though thoroughly unhinged: Feldman installs a fully functioning claw-grabber/skill crane machine inside Stardust, enters said machine, and stays in there for the duration of the “performance.” And we mean the duration — Feldman, ever committed to the bit, should be in there for an excess of 16 hours (no breaks allowed), watching people try to grab sundry trinkets and maybe being their man on the inside to help boost the odds of winning.

And 50 cents a play in this economy is a damn steal.

starts at 8 a.m. Sunday, June 21, Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road, brianfeldman.com, free.