Rafael Sanchez " Dill Pickle / Making up for Lost Time / Rock Me"
Exit Art
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Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work entitled, "The Limit as the Body Approaches Zero."
"Dill Pickle" is an allegory for sexual fantasy and voyeurism. The artist will climb a ladder and periodically slice cucumbers into a big tub placed under the ladder. During this process, music and soundscapes from pornographic films will play.
In "Making up for Lost Time," the artist will recreate 21 years of orgasms and the visual, auditory, and sensual stimuli that made these moments possible.
"Rock Me" is a performance addressing the sexuality of the body as separate from sensation.
Sanchez’s performances often bridge the spectacle of street life with the meditative interiority of private rituals. During this exhibition, the artist will stage performances every Saturday that provoke questions about issues as diverse as masculinity, sexuality, gentrification, and bodily limits. In deceivingly simple gestures and epic endurance feats, Sanchez uses his body to carry ideas about the performative conditions of daily life in the city and how it is inscribed with desire, pain, musical rhythms, absurdity and poetry. Sanchez demands that viewers make a “psycho-educational commitment to enhancing his or her own perception of reality.”
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July 17, 2010 from 12:00 to 16:00