Live performance with video
Performance duration: 1hr
Location: The VIP opening night of an international art fair
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Video performance
Single-channel DVD, edition of 5 + 2APs
Single-channel mpeg 4, edition of 100
29:52min
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Description: With Recognition I exaggerated the entertainment value of performance art by staging a Hollywood-style affair that and challenged the concept of liveness in technology and performance. For this $100 ticket VIP opening night of an art fair, I fabricated green-screened videos of six personas based on stereotypes of female celebrity artists and used these in the live event to create frame breaks throughout. The presenter persona initially held the power in the situation, but eventually resigned control to the video feed, placing her at the same level of interaction as the audience; the virtual, pre-recorded bodies underscored the critique of performance art as entertainment and the powerless presenter mimicked the condition of the performance artist as beholden to the interests of the audience and larger art world.
image above: performance still
image above: performance still