Featured Performer 1997
Skin Performance with Installation
Jessica Buege
Los Angeles' Jessica Buege examines gender, labor and bondage/escape in Dinner of Tantalus, at the Colonial Arcade on Saturday May 10. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate School and has featured performance work extensively in California. In this conceptual, introspective action, she wears a nylon suit and drags a 75 pound bag of beef fat trimmings behind her while an audio track of Sartre's Being and Nothingness is played. She proceeds to slice open the bag and fill her suit with the beef. Buege uses the burden of the meat to not only represent labor, but to objectify her body, while motivating the audience to question their own subjectivity.