VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

I decided to rethink my final project, Made Public, as I felt my original idea was closed off and not open enough. For this past week I did a test for my new idea which concerns some of the original themes of punishment, discipline and torture. For my new performance I plan to interactively have a session of torture on Wriston Quad. The choice of this location serves as a commentary on the punishment and torture related to masculinity and fraternity social organizations.
For my test I publicly whipped myself on Wriston for several minutes and had someone film this event. The reactions were pretty amazing. For the final performance I plan to have raw meat that people will be able to throw at me and a group of others I have recruited for the performance. They will encourage members of the crowd to spit, insult and throw the meat at me as I and the others continue to torture me. Several cameras will be used to document this.

The conceptualization of time as a singular event breaks with the rationalized conception of time as a  linear progression.  The event signifies the culmination of all time as one happening; a monstrous view of advance as eternity in a single totalized form.  This concepts bears importance after the transition into modernity as man faces bodily abstraction by and through time, especially within the modern prison and factory systems.  These functions as sites of the mechanization of the body and its abstraction from the organic into a constructed alterity.