Rafael Sanchez "Can't Keep Running Away / Bad Brains Re-enactment / Habibi Abid / Performace for Those Loved / Diamond Sea (Part Two)"
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."1
"Can't Keep Running Away" is a performance piece about the defense mechanism of “avoidance coping.”
"Bad Brains Re-enactment" uses performance footage of the Washington D.C. hardcore punk group Bad Brains, in which the artist mimics lead singer H.R.’s movements to bring immediate presence to vicarious memory.
In "Habibi Abid" the artist will sit in a plexi-glass box, from which Sudanese wedding music will play. Sand will fill the box as the music plays and becomes louder. Once the sand reaches his neck, honey and ants will be poured over his head. While the ants wander through the honey, the music will become less audible and the sound of shifting sand will replace the music of celebration.
As a gift to four people from various spheres of the artist's life, "Performance for Those Loved," Sanchez will create a performance.
"Diamond Sea (Part Two)" is based on Sonic Youth's "Diamond Sea."
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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Schedule
July 31, 2010 from 12:00 to 18:00