performance/video, 2011
3 min 10 sec, set on indefinite loop displayed on 52″ HD flat screen monitor, hung vertical
or showed as a single channel work
“…raw and honest, wickedly humorous… powerful intimacy” —Krowswork Gallery
With oddball wit REPTILIAN points towards the dismissal and victimization of the feminine principal as causative in the unraveling of our planet’s life support systems, and its invocation and equal evaluation as remedy. Reptilian looks at the staggering destruction which human beings have waged against their own biosphere from a satirical slant by referencing the reptilian alien conspiracy theory. Theorists preposterously blame the wanton ruin of the Earth through exploitation and rampant toxic contamination to the point of Climate Change, on a reptilian alien bloodline, shared royalty and world leaders who can then return home to their own planet after they throughly exploit and ruin this one. REPTILIAN sees this narrative as a reaction born out of the incomprehensibleness of the truth, that human beings out of shortsighted greed and lust for power are exploiting and ruining their own planet, ironically and sadly no less preposterous. REPTILIAN embodies the problem and the solution, like human beings and it invokes the mystical, nurturing, empathetic feminine principal through deity Mother Mary as remedy.
