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Bread and fish in Second Life
May 3rd, 2009 Posted 3:25 pm
Kakukkfu Yosuke – Art’s 1.000.056 ‘th birthday
This cyber performance or cyberformance was made in one of the metaverse known as Second Life, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game( MMORPG).
The action is a reinterpretation of a biblical story in which Jesus made a miracle duplicating bread and fish to a plenty of starving people. In cyberspace duplicating is not a miracle, and the bread is not an important symbol anymore. read more on his blog here.
Tags: duplicating, fish, miracle, SecondLife, sl
Posted in cyberformance, performance
Etna IV
April 26th, 2009 Posted 9:22 pm
Ütő Gusztáv & Kónya Réka – Etna IV
Saint Ann Lake/Transylvania/Romania
The core-idea to compare a large homemade bread with Hungary was given by the artist’s great grandmother. From Bodok’s bread bakery he ordered a bread of 17 kg (37.4 pound). The size of the bread is linked to the tatar invasion. When people from the surrounding villages escaped into Almasi cave the survival solution was to run with a big bread.
In the performance they formally cut down the Transylvania part of the bread than cut in slices, anointed with grease, salted and trough a stencil with the text TRANSYLVANIA scattered some paprika powder on it. These bread slices have been offered to the public in three languages and was devoured with huge appetite.
Tags: AnnART, grease, performance
Posted in object, performance
Bread Man
April 21st, 2009 Posted 3:12 am
Tatsumi Orimoto – Bread Man
performance - ’90s location – Nepal, Germany …The idea to make a BreadBlog came when I saw an image about one of Tatsumi Orimoto’s performance.
[...]Believe in the power of bread. That was the idea behind Japanese artist Tatsumi Orimoto’s “Bread Man” performance art series in the ’90s. Meant as a unifying symbol of communication, he made his name with the body of work which involved global travel to places like Nepal and Germany with loaves of bread tied around his head while a puzzled public looked or laughed on … read more
Tags: face, head, japan
Posted in performance