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02 Feb, 2008

SK-interfaces

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Well, after a bit of a hiatus on the blogging front I am back with new projects(glowbikes and the speculative research umbrella term) and new travels. This weekend I am at FACT, in liverpool for the opening of SK-Interfaces (31st Jan 2008), and the Zbigniew Oksiuta gelatine growing workshop.

The opening was great, particularly the performance piece by Yann Marussich(CH) Blue Remix. Through this performance he makes the internal motion of his body apparent, through ingestion a large amount of methylene blue that gradually exits from all of his pores in his sweat. It is profound and scary, and extreme. His rigidity in the performance bellies the fact that as bodies we are always in motion, and in a disequilibrium with the surrounding environment. We are anything but sustainable, but our borders are semi-permiable. We are ablie to get close to see the pores ooze blue. A previous Blue work had him surveyed by a robot camera that projected on a screen.

I speculate this was a more visceral performance (having not seen the previous one), see the photos next.

Tags: art, bio, blue, performance, Yann Marussich

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