So I went to Newark, New Jersey to perform my piece, Stretching the Canas, on Tuesday. The piece is about the skin of alienation and gender insecurity being stretched over the framework of an indifferent post humanist and deconstructed class structure within our society. In the piece, I stretch the canvas of a painting that I did previously over stretcher bars in order to make a finished painting. The stretching implies the strains of the transgendered Republican preachers in America under the boot heel of a society which is incapable of feeling their isolation. It was an absolute success! The critics went wild again! Being an artist is hard - I had to sign autographs for hours.
I was also hoping to see a painting of mine which is in a courtroom in Newark but I ran out of time and came back to my studio to paint the chair more. It seems that it's always one step away from being finished.
3 comments:
well now you've lost me completely! I was going to ask what a performance piece was, but did not like to appear ignorant...well maybe I should have done!
So what does this piece look like? or are we only left to imagine it from the parameters you give?
oh, dear...the chair though is more what i can understand...transgendered preachers???there can't be that many, surely!
Rest assured you've missed nothing - like many "performance" pieces. I'm taking a crack at the often times self-indulgent art world. Performance art is often put on a special pedestal for ridicule as it is often way out there and often times not all that skilled (although very good performance art can be very moving). this falls into my series of jokes about this part of the artworld. I'm very sorry for the confusion!
Phew! I am reassured, neither of us have lost our marbles! What a relief!
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