Fur Egg.
Solo, 2007.
Performed at Haus der Kunst der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
full performance video, 2.5 hrs +
Commissioned by the "Nomadic New York" festival, Haus der Kunst der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
August '07.
Curated by Andrè Lepecki.
A three hour structured improvisation. Late-night durational work. Process.
11pm - 1am.
IN WHICH a t'fillin-wrapped, cock-ringed Jew, dances naked along the epistemosomatic fault, across a CIA-built Berlin stage.
Same as it ever was.
IN WHICH an epic, mythic privacy reveals some few links of a life's chain: cock ring & t'fillin; white man's burden & clown sack of garbage; history trash bundle & soiled world-screen; prolapsed anus & cyclopian eye of G-d. Prayer & penetration-by-ghost. Dirt & milk. Mud & skin. Whore & totem. Art & electric-terrarium-womb. MaPa & PaMa. Etc.
IN WHICH a totem-easel is built from Berlin garbage, whereupon a portrait is painted from memory of a murdered, ritually abandoned prostitute, found in 2007 alongside three others similarly, ritually abandoned on Black Horse Pike, the outskirts of Atlantic City, NJ. (A serial crime as yet [09/'20] unsolved).
IN WHICH a "9-11" audience call and response (chorus: "What's your favorite number? 9-11! 9-11!") occurs.
The audience roamed in and out; generally sparsely attended.
Only known performance.
some stills
(Haus videographer Manuel Forster had to change tapes during the 9-11 chant, so, much of it is lost.)
Intermission
9/11 chant
[call + response]
What’s your favorite number
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Makes me want to scream and holler
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Want to put my arms around you
Shove my head in!
Shove my head in!
What’s your favorite number
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Veni vidi vici
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Straight into my veins
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Cook and clean and sew
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Make my body glow
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
I want it I want it I want it
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
I can call it on the phone
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
It’s a candle it’s a bone
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Bring me bring me bring me a pile
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
I’ll walk a minute a hour a mile
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Remember remember free free
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
I it you she he they me
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Give my horse a blanket
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Give my horse a blanket
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Give my horse a blanket
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
What’s your favorite number
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Dance and scream and shout
We’re in heaven!
We’re in heaven!
Nine-eleven! Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Baruch attah adonai elohei
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
Nine-eleven!
What’s your favorite number
What’s your favorite number
What’s your favorite number