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Drag
at Moving Image Gallery, 2000
"Drag"
consists of a data projection on the floor of the
gallery. Prior to the performance, it shows a mock
open bible on the floor. The bible is between 8
and 10 feet in size, and its text is clearly legible,
revealing that it is an amalgam of tracts from the
real bible, all referring to sexual rules and regulations,
controlling female and, to a lesser degree, male
behavior. Gathered together, the texts make for
a synopsis of christianity's attitude toward sexuality.
During performance, the artist drags a real bible,
by means of a string attached to his penis, across
this image of the bible. As the real bible tracks
across the image, it apears to erase the image revealing
another image below. This new image is one of the
artist and wife, naked against a plush red fabric
background, involved in an embrace, loving but not
pornographic. The artist drags the bible in an inward
spiral, slowly eating away at the upper image and
revealing the below until all of the' rules's are
gone and sexual happiness remains. After performance,
a view of the performance in progress, shot from
directly overhead, is projected on the floor and
looped. The viewer sees the bible laid on the floor
as before, but now sees it being erased and reappearing,
only to be erased again.
For
a close up view of the mock bible: click here 
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