In today’s Boing Boing tv, Xeni visits Machine Project in LA to check out artist Brody Condon‘s piece “Performance Modification,” in which….
10 performers outfitted in medieval/space/fantasy armor re-create Bruce Nauman’s 1973 work “Tony Sinking into the Floor, Face Up and Face Downâ€. Performed in slow motion and combined with movements based on computer game death animations, this piece is accompanied by a high volume binaural beats reputed to induce out of body experiences.
Condon has a history of work involving computer game modification, and performance events with medieval re-enactment and fantasy live action role playing games.
In part two, an impressionistic montage of iPhone snapshots taken among those living, slow-mo dead.
I was mildly disappointed that a mob-style hit didn’t occur at the crescendo of that solo. I suppose it was good enough that elves were dying slowly everywhere. Fucking elves. Oh, they’ll bake you cookies in a tree, but none of them show up in the middle of the night to fix my boots anymore.