The Ron Athey and Lee Adams curatorial vision that is Visions of Excess* was presented at the International Performance Art Festival, Warehouse 9, Copenhagen. Smaller in scale than usual it featured Lee Adams, Lazlo Pearlman, Mouse, Dominic Johnson and myself, and fitted perfectly into the beautifully orchestrated festival. The rest of the festival  included Del LaGrace Volcano, Nao Bustamante, Narcissister and Niko Raes.

See here for video stills from the entire festival including more from my own Bureau of Decayed Visions/collective DNA extraction.

Small amounts of  body tissue was collected from self electing members of the audience. Conversations made up a great part of it and somehow they informed the mix as well. My attire was both glamerous hostess and and show girl, black feathers and vast expanses of tulle. The organic materials were blended together and a lo-tech DNA protocol was performed using only ingrediants form the supermarket and the bar. The subsequent extraction contained in a plastic tube, was then held inside me by me as I inverted myself upside down and became a human repository, holder or perhaps incubator for this collective material coding. My work merged with Dominic Johnson’s performance Transmission, he came out of his installation covered in earth, blood and glitter and performed the placing of the test tube into my vagina as I disappeared under my tulle skirt.

all video stills by Nans Leiding.

A most heartfelt thanks to all at Warehouse 9 especially Miss Fish and Christian, Bernardo Verchelli.

And a special thank you to Dominic Johnson and our first artistic collaborative venture.

Thanks you as ever to Lee Adams and Ron Athey, it’s privilege to be included within the transformative dimensions you invoke

*communion with the ragged spirit of Georges Bataille, exploring the “scatological philosophers” key themes of death, eroticism and the forbidden.