Featured Performer 1997
Lorena Wolffer Mexican Territory
all photos by M. Naranjo
Lorena Wolffer
Lorena Wolffer of Mexico City brings her politically charged performance Mexican Territory to a storefront in the Arcade on Sunday May 11. In her piece that lasts nearly six hours, she is tied to a surgical table and lays motionless while 30 liters of cows blood drips on her naked body and a voice endlessly and monotonously recites the phrase "Danger, you are approaching Mexican territory." This performance is a commentary on Mexico's passivity towards their economic and political concerns. Wolffer co-founded Ex-Teresa, Arte Alternativo, an experimental art space in Mexico City, where she served as Curator and Director until 1996.