AS CONSCIOUSNESS IS HARNESSED BY THE FLESH
Performance
2022

A Scenic Route To The Self
Group Show
NEST - THE HAGUE

So the third body has emerged last night. The baby is born, however unwillingly, and what do we do with it now. For this performance I will need a back stage, since I will cover myself in edible fake blood. I would like to perform at midday so you can expect that to be around 15:00/16:00, whatever works for the other performances. At the start of the performance I will be carried, from the backstage, naked (or mostly naked, I haven’t made my mind up yet), drenched in fake blood, into the exhibition space. I will ask a friend, strong enough to cary me to participate. I will be lay down on the floor of the exhibition space. I don’t have a particular placement in mind, but anything that you think is fitting. I will remain in that spot for as long as I can bare, remaining in a fetus position, sometimes changing my position, but staying mostly quite still. When I’ve had enough my carrier will pick me up and take me back stage again. During the performance I will invite some of my friends to the space and ask them to at some moments, one by one, lick my body. I will arrange a videographer to document the performance myself. Preferably I would like the remnants of the fake blood to remain in the space during the rest of the show.
To make the performance as comfortable for my body as possible, I would like to know if there are possibilities to warm the space. I am comfortable with the performance being announced.