Artifice of Sacrifice 2006
The Western Front, Vancouver
SLITS 2, curated by Victoria Singh
performance with calligraphy brush and wisdom teeth sutured into beef tongue, tent, two TV monitors outside (1 live feed &1 dvd)
This installation/performance is a direct response to the curatorial premise, on how performance art communicates pain to the audience “without penetrating the skin.” Artifice of Sacrifice invokes two methods: one, by piercing the skin of an Other (of an animal), and two, by allowing multiple viewing modalities – live performance in real time as well as mediated via TV monitors, one of which is a live feed, while the other is pre-recorded. The result is a matrix of differentiated experiences of the “same” event.
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photos: Jeremy Hatch
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