YOGAFLOGOGO (2015)
Performance at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (2015). Duration 60 mins.
“YOGAFLOGOGO is a performance and installation providing a televisual exchange between interiority and representative media. A static-filled television screen becomes a site of sacred ritual and mystic divination. The complex set for pre-historical rites and videos explore the theater of endoscopy, pop-culture and amorphous blobs of animated ooze. The installation is both a set for the YOGAFLOGOGO performance and for additional video installation works.
In the opening night performance, two girls squat in a living room where the television plays only static. They try anything to make it work, from rudimentary whacks to elaborate rituals and games. Their actions inadvertently reflect symbolic shifts in history, economics and spiritual traditions.
(from Press Release and website)
Polly Ethylene and Polly Propylene played by Sadie Alan and Antonia Duble,
The Outer Limit of Your Body played by Sylvie Nelson,
ASSK Elizabeth played by Elizabeth Kouri.
San Francisco Gate article HERE.
Daily Serving review HERE.
Essay by Valerie Imus HERE.
Full video documentation of performance HERE.
Video documentation of performance (excerpt)
The frame in the center shows the performance, The two side frames show the two animation projections, synched to the performance.
Performance stills
Post-performance video installation
The wall projections are the same animations that played during the performance. The video documentation of the performance plays on the TV in the middle of the set, synchronized with the animations as in the performance.