"The 3 pigs" : interactive performance

ISBN-13: 9783639147643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 60 str.

Ana Magdalena Torres Villarreal

Opis

This book is about an interactive performance "The 3 pigs"- april 4, 2007 at 7pm in the Laura Mesaros Gallery, Morgantown WV. A dramatic parody within the realm of conceptual art. Transplanting the moral from a traditional tale (The Three Little Pigs) to a current world of politics and iconized and institutional ideas, The 3 Pigs questions definitions and ways of acting. The objective was to trigger the interactive process and bring awareness to alliances that attribute identities and provokes fear towards the other. The pigs-wolves situation and the gallery-artist situation are related to the U.S.-Mexico situation. Connected by the idea for the need for walls to protect them from a specific interaction, fear converts society, represented by the pigs and audience members, into the terrorists, the wolves. The script treats fear as a major ingredient for failure and an instrument for political manipulation. The other becomes the wolf, and the wall becomes a symbol. Separating the good ones (pigs) and the bad ones (wolves), the symbol acquires major importance.

O autorze

Visual artist. She has lived and worked
in rural communities in Mexico, the U.S, and The Netherlands.
Using varied forms of art, her projects question social
conditions, human behavior and art itself. In 2008, she received
the Innovative
Electronic Theses and
Dissertations Award for "The 3 Pigs".