This is not the East Village Radio video, a friend shot this. Man, my face is INCA to the max. Nothing suave or european about it. Rough.
Before I performed this piece I said a few words about the ideas of roles. This projection was originally a going to be a very large painting, but as I started to work on it I realized that by painting this woman I was solidifying her existence as a real role (indigenous woman = cleaning woman). When in fact she is just a projection of that role. So I decided to project her onto myself as a statement about roles and ideas being fleeting and ephemeral, just like the physical projection itself. The purpose of this piece is to bring to question the general idea of roles that we project onto each other. For this piece, will I be the role of the performer and you the audience? Or is there a way that we can see, or rather feel each other as equals.
"My focus for this particular piece will be
similar to one's experience of staring at a painting for too long.
The mind sees what the eyes see, but as time goes on, the picture
becomes distorted, the subject matter is forgotten and the painting
morphes into something quite different."
Part One
Part2
Part 3--> but not the end of the show...
ends sort of abruptly....the East Village version (tripod, from a different angle) will hopefully be up in the next few weeks and it will be in full, I hope......
the very last piece was my favorite, I feel so weird posting this stuff after the fact. But it's for archival purposes so i guess I'll let it be and move on....
