Salo Concept performance. 03/16/2011

    Held in the Cube Gallery, 4th floor, WKU Fine arts Building. Weight, monotony, physical violence, burden and the crushing down of my consciousness due to the awareness of what this country, this Capitalist geist, and Anarchist philosophy expose and exploit.
   
"We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence. That's really the part that I think is the hardest for people to understand. If you sit in your house, live your white life and go to your white job, and allow the country that you live in to murder people and to commit genocide, and you sit there and you don't do anything about it, that's violence." Naomi Jaffe

Salo: May Day performance/installation Show 2011
Cube Gallery 4th flr. Fine Arts Center WKU

           Salo: May Day the performance and installation, was a collective showing of 2011 works under the umbrella of my Salo Series. The film, Salo: 120 Days of Sodom by Italian director, Pier Paolo Pasolini, deals with the corrupted reality that is fascism, and the objectifying consciousness of that reality. The word (salo) also refers to the Hungarian word for high-fat percent meats: bacon, fat backs, etc. This dichotomy of the word, gave great imagery and content to work from. Pasolini delivers the same insight into the weight of consciousness and awareness of a violent reality that my current work seeks to understand. In this performance I remembered and paid tribute to the 41st anniversary of the Kent State University massacre in Ohio of 1970. Reciting the historical event along with names and dates of the victims. I blindly swung, in violence, into a hanging garbage bag pinata full of red paint. As the object took blow after blow, bleeding red paint, It hung from the ceiling as a blood red residue of my initial violence. This reality, even if thousands of miles away is violent. It is not the physical aspect that Salo deals with, in my definition; it is the psychological scarring and weight of awareness to those horrific and violent events. It is knowing you are helpless and the staggering influx of that fact that I try to get closer to knowing.

Watch the video performance of Salo: May Day 2011