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I thought I'd better post something before Sally takes my photo privileges away. I'm participating at TAAFI again this year, and acting like a socialite with Alzheimer's.
Performance artist Tanya Mars handed out Seven Deadly Sins balloons at the opening gala, (I chose "Wrath", although, really, any old sin will do). The cluster in the picture below were tied to a balcony door at the Gladstone Hotel the next day and they kept on blowing at me like an insistently moral molecule while I was trying to have a smoke.
Sandra Rechico introduced me to one of her former students, Tejpal S. Ajji, who was showing a video installation at the Drake.
(wall)
(ceiling) (The ceiling projection was quite a bit brighter than the wall, and after much technical discussion, we concluded that something optical was going on. That's what I remember.)
The videos are 23 minutes of Tej hanging by his feet from the ceiling STRUGGLING and SUFFERING. (but quite sensibly, I thought, taking on the occasional snack from an upside down table that was also hanging from the ceiling)
(projectors)
The projector setup was hilarious. (I also laughed at all the suffering.)
This image is at a funny angle because I was, myself, practising SLOTH and lolling on a couch when I shot it. But it's supposed to show how a projector was hanging over a tub of water with a mirror inside to reflect the rope ladder footage up to the ceiling (note the bungee cords, scotch tape and Band-Aids holding it all securely to a stool that is, in turn, bungeed, taped and Band-Aided to a small table).
I'm hoping that the Drake Hotel keeps this work in their Yoga Room as a permanent installation. (as long as those awkward yoga folks don't knock the projector into the tub of water)