“What’s in the bottle?” asked a security guard suspiciously as he patted down my pockets for drugs or weapons, taking a sniff of my bottle of flavored seltzer. “Um, water,” I replied. Getting interrogated by security wasn’t part of the show, but it was a fitting start to “Authority Figure,” Monica Mirabile and Sarah Kinlaw’s supremely ambitious performance art piece about obedience and authority, which took place on May 20-22.