polemic healing : a performance experiment 2013
During the summer of 2013, I initiated an artists In residence workshop: the AIR Programme - an extension of the initiative Independance, in which I was the coordinator of at the time.
The AIR Programme invited the well-known independent and progressive Maori artist Charles Koroneho / Te Toki Haruru to be the first creative guest. Chosen artists from a variety of disciplines participated in a week long series of discussions and workshops centering around solo performance and the culture of performance in New Zealand. We communally stayed and worked in the Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae, Unitec, Auckland New Zealand. Concepts explored from the workshop were performed as ideas in progress to a public audience in and around the Marae grounds and whare (house).
Polemic Healing is a performance experiment and a one-on-one dialogue between the artist and the audience member as a voluntary performative subject. The artist is an active force behaving on behalf of the audience member. The artist utilizes the symbolic red flag of 'victory/power/desire/healing' and whips the flag vigorously and continuously across the front of the body of the audience member, while the audience member is lying down on their back. This quickened act of ritualistic healing of diatribe, is an attempt to rid the person of and/or expel from their body their polemic issue(s).
Commission inquiries:
Polemic Healing is an ongoing global experiment. This performance may be activated within any space and environment: outdoors, theater, studio, gallery, conference / lecture setting, house, office etc. The duration of the performance is determined upon how many voluntary audience members undergo polemic healing, and how long this act takes for each person is intuitively determined by the artist.
Please contact me (via cv / bio page for details) if you are interested in inviting Polemic Healing to participate in your event.
Polemic Healing is an ongoing global experiment. This performance may be activated within any space and environment: outdoors, theater, studio, gallery, conference / lecture setting, house, office etc. The duration of the performance is determined upon how many voluntary audience members undergo polemic healing, and how long this act takes for each person is intuitively determined by the artist.
Please contact me (via cv / bio page for details) if you are interested in inviting Polemic Healing to participate in your event.
