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| "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 about 10 x 14 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 lover, 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. |
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Drag @ Moving Image Gallery 2000 |
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