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‘Flicking the Tit of the Weeping Lemur’
April 17th-24th 2007
Stevenson Blanche Gallery
California Institute of the Arts
This show was based upon the phallacy and anxiety of hygene.
Contents of Installation:
10 Hours of Menstruation
December 2006
Video Documentation of Gina Clark
in her Studio from 8pm-6am
Pulling out her Menstrual Blood and Wiping it
onto her face, neck and arms.
Fluids were collected for 4 months,until the week of the Installation,
where they were then used to paint the title of the exhibition.
Vitmin Wig C
Pre-recorded Music by Robert Hansen
2007
‘When I was a Child’
Photograph and written word on wall
by Sam Michel
Verschlinge Ich Sie
January 2007
(I Devour Them)
Video by Justin Faris and Gina Clark
Hi8
Dieses Fett
January 2007
(This is Fat)
Video by Gina Clark and Justin Faris
Hi8
Pink Saliva
2007
Video by Robert Hansen and Gina Clark
A small televison
on the floor played a six hour VHS dub of different
video work shot between the years of 2000-20007.
Projection:
Extricate and Extricate:Sonnenaufgang
December 2005 and April 2006
8mm Film
By Gina Clark and Justin Faris
This projection offered the space
three seperate tones toward the atmospheric pulse;
created by the sound of the four Video installations,
as well as the sound score by Robert Hansen of Vitamin Wig C.
The projector was tilted so that the image would reflect off six small
panes of glass placed at the corner of the platform which the
projector sat. The effect was a tripple projection of the images onto
the ceiling, which was tinted green. The rest of the projection filled the
the space, causing an actual clear image of the two films on the floor
(the ritual space), while a green hue filled the back wall allowing the
atmosphere to lend a more underwater experience to the participants.
The Performance Consisted of a large circle drawn with Toothpaste
in the middle of the Installation,which was composed and smeared by
Gina around 6 in the afternoon.
Casey Basichis collected his semen in a jar from February to March 2007.
Upon the jars placement from Casey’s home to the Gallery
space, the jar had dropped and spilled out all of its contents, which were to be
used by Casey and Gina to shave their legs with. The contents spilt onto
a dvd of Jan Svankmajer’s ‘Faust’ which was in the same bag as the jar of semen.
On the side wall next to the entrance
contained a small table with Toothpaste, Water, Cups, and Toothbrushes.
Viewers were notified by directions written onto the main entrance’s door,
informing those who entered to brush their
teeth and donate their spit to the toothpaste circle drawn in the Gallery space.
At 11pm Nico Solaris
came into the space the same moment that we were donated shaving cream from
another current student of CalArts ,Jackson;
my neighbor while living in Vale Verde. Nico was the first to sit
down with the razors provided, and began to shave his legs. I sat
in the circle with Casey and the three of us shaved our legs in the spit circle.
After 10 minutes had passed many other men who entered the room were
exuberant to join in on the ritual. All of the women who entered would brush their
teeth and rinse, but never joined in with the six other men and I. They would either watch
the performers, or sit along the sides of the gallery space. Theory could be read as an
assumption, possibly being that none of the women needed a shave, or that it was something
that was already so prelevant in their life, that it seemed as though it would be too much work.
The performance ended when we ran out of shaving creme, and all of the razors
had reached their end of being usable. Around 1:am a giant Icelandic boy from
the Animation Department came in and asked about the movie ‘Weekend at Bernies’.
I actually had weekend at Bernies in my studio, so I ran upstairs to the mezzanine to grab
the film, as the long as the Icelandic guy brushed his teeth for me. While the theme of the film
blasted from the tower which before was projecting ‘Verschlinge ich sie’, Irhen blessed the
space with his excrements.
All of the video, film, and sound pieces were planned in the Installation’s
conception period, but mostly during the experimental stages of ‘Flicking the Tit’s’
Installation. This period ended at noon on the day of the performance, the 6th day
of its preparation.
After the performance the contents and aftermath remained in the space until
the afternoon of Saturday, the 24th day of March.
