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TORTURE
performance/installation Proposal |
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DUMBO Arts Festival 2008 |
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Against
the backdrop of an animated skull-spangled American flag,
and with animated projections underfoot, a performer,
covered with images of tortured U.S. war detainees, endures
while onlookers strip away the images with forceps.
Set
up on the streets of Brooklyn at the intersection of
Pearl and Front Streets, the animated flag, undulating
across a galvanized steel fence, surrounded by razor
wire, blinks between displaying stars and skull-&-crossbones.
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sidewalk is also alive with projected animations showing
forceps wandering in a field of torture images, picking
them up and clearing them away, only for the images to
return and fill the area, starting the process all over
again. |
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artist, splayed in frisk position against the fence,
saturated in images from the projections and covered
head to toe with the same torture photos, remains fixed
while examined by onlookers and while viewers, now participants,
tear the images from his flesh, using provided forceps.
Performance duration: 2 hours |
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| Animated ground projection features a
field of photo stickers being grabbed and taken away
by animated forceps |
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| sketch for Torture @ Cooper Union 2009: indoor performance |
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Torture @ DUMBO 2008
performance/installation location |
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