Search results | digital.library.yorku.ca

(1 - 3 of 3)

Title: Bleeding to Life
Description: An essay-performance, this media-archaeological examination celebrates the revolutionary potential of recognizing and engaging with our collective, gaping wounds. Taking Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as a point of departure, I construct a narrative that links the production of subjectivities in “post”-colonial contexts, with the technosexual networks of resistance and coded information exchange that grew out of the government-manufactured crack epidemic in oppressed neighborhoods throughout the late 70s/early 80s and today. Indebted to the writing of Donna Haraway, Jussi Parikka, Hortense Spillers, & Kanye West. Created specifically for the Dark Diction event on January 16, 2015 at JACK in NYC, organized by Social Health Performance Club. Tattoo work was done by Josh Kil, photos by Laura Blüer, and video by David Ian Griess, and are featured here with those collaborators’ permission.
Type: Moving image
Date: Fall/Winter 2016
Identifier: intensions8-iandeleon
Identifier (PID): yul:1156010

Title: Desierto (Desert), by Regina José Galindo
Description: Desierto, a performance piece, took place July 7th, 2015 in the Gallery Gabriela Mistral in Santiago de Chile. Desierto, Desert, was created for the Chilean context: it speaks of forms of oppression, abuse, racism and colonialism that hide behind the successful industry of pine that has invaded the Mapuche indigenous territory in that country, generating increased damage to the ecosystem. The work is not only about one site, however. In the artist’s words, "[t]he problem of land and indigenous peoples that have been violated and pillaged by wealthy families and the State is not a stranger to Guatemala context…during the war in my country, the scorched-earth strategy was a constant. Thousands of indigenous Maya were kept in their communities, were murdered and their lands expropriated. Many of these lands passed into the hands of the State, oligarchs, or foreigners. Many of these lands are currently exploited through mining, hydroelectric industries or areas of monoculture. In Guatemala there are no pine-forests, but there is another way to annihilate the Earth. In Guatemala, the African Palm has caused havoc. Recently the factory Xerxes (that produces Palm oil Olmec brand) contaminated the rivers’ waters and thousands of fish and other species have died in an ecocide without precedent". Speaking to this violence, in this work, the artist remains naked, buried in the sand dunes of sawdust created inside the Gallery. Sawdust refers to waste resulting after the over exploitation of the land and the ongoing desertification of large tracts of land, both in Guatemala with the cultivation of African Palm, as in Chile with the large scale cultivation of pine and eucalyptus. The desert is no longer the North but the South. Commissioned and produced for the Gabriela Mistral Gallery, Santiago de Chile Curated by Soledad Novoa Donoso Photos by Rodrigo Maulen Video by Andrés Lima, Sebastián Pando
Type: Moving image
Date: Fall/Winter 2016
Identifier: intensions8-reginajosegalindo
Identifier (PID): yul:1156003

Title: X, by Rebecca Belmore
Description: Performed on June 17, 2010 Wall of the Price Chopper, 181 Brock Street, Peterborough, Ontario Performance for Mapping Resistances exhibition. Curated by Wanda Nanibush as part of the Ode’Min Giizis Festival June 17-18, 2010, Peterborough, On Materials: A black truck, an assistant and a trumpet player, bags of milk, four buckets, water four cushions in the colours used in Robert Houle’s “Mohawk Summer,” four stones, a brick wall. Videographers: Nick Ferrio, Jessica Rowland Edited by: Nick Ferrio
Type: Moving image
Date: Fall/Winter 2012
Identifier: intensions6-rebeccabelmore
Identifier (PID): yul:1156001