Confidentiality (2016)
(performance)
(performance)
Duration: 25mins
Location: Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, CH
This piece was performed for Manifesta 11 at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, Switzerland.
The space was filled with smoke, the lights dimmed and flickering with the sound of my breathing recorded during my sleep from the night before amplified on loudspeakers. MRI images of my brain were projected onto a screen above the stage. Painted white with white coloured contact lenses to block out my irises, I got up on stage, stripped naked and stretched out horizontally on a pillow to evoke a Freudian sofa. I was attached by two nylon threads, one around my neck and the other through my earlobe, pulling me in opposite directions.
I then lit a cigarette and held it above my body to allow the ashes to drop onto my bare skin as I spoke into the microphone every single secret, regret and private matter that came to mind from my personal life. At the end of my last cigarette, I burned both threads with the lit end of it and put it out on my own chest.
Photographic documentation was not permitted in the space.
Location: Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, CH
This piece was performed for Manifesta 11 at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, Switzerland.
The space was filled with smoke, the lights dimmed and flickering with the sound of my breathing recorded during my sleep from the night before amplified on loudspeakers. MRI images of my brain were projected onto a screen above the stage. Painted white with white coloured contact lenses to block out my irises, I got up on stage, stripped naked and stretched out horizontally on a pillow to evoke a Freudian sofa. I was attached by two nylon threads, one around my neck and the other through my earlobe, pulling me in opposite directions.
I then lit a cigarette and held it above my body to allow the ashes to drop onto my bare skin as I spoke into the microphone every single secret, regret and private matter that came to mind from my personal life. At the end of my last cigarette, I burned both threads with the lit end of it and put it out on my own chest.
Photographic documentation was not permitted in the space.