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The Red Dragon and the Disemboweled Rabbit meeting in the Bastard Art Gallery

Two performances added in the
Bastard Art Gallery
events section
Recently two Bastard Art works were performed by DDV. The first one -
"The Red Dragon" - was performed on the occasion of the Belgian TV-show
'LUX'. The second one - "Wie Man dem Zerrissenen Hasen die Aktionskunst
Erklärt" - was performed at the Perf07 festival in Pori, Finland.
Both are now documented in the 'events' section at The Bastard Art
Gallery
I - The Red Dragon
Between 17.00 and 18.00hrs on friday 13 april 2007 DDV stood on the
edge of the top balcony ramp of the house on Ernest Van Dijckkaai N°8
in Antwerp, dressed in a shiny red cape, rubber boots, blindfolded and
with his diggin' shovel in his hands. While he counted from 1 till
1978, Sofie read a cutup text about this piece. The performance had -
apart from casual passers-by below - one viewer: Mauro Pawlowski.

II - Wie Man dem Zerrissenen Hasen die Aktionskunst Erklärt
On 19 may 2007, day two of the Perf07 festival in Pori, Finland some 50
people showed up for the performances that would start at Annis, and
continue in the evening at the Museum of Contemporary Art on the
occasion of a 'Museum Night'.

DDV wandered around the parking lot in his drab green Chinese raincoat
with a shovel in his hand. On several locations he tried to start
digging, but the surface was too hard. Finally he found a suitable spot
in a corner under a tree and frantically started diggin'. To
everybody's surprise after some 15 minutes, he unearthed a mysterious
wooden box. He took it out of the hole and a procession of onlookers
followed him inside the building to see what treasures the box would
hold.

Inside DDV placed the unearthed box on a table, next to a television
monitor that showed live footage of the action itself. He tried to pry
open the box, but it was tightly shut with nails and glue. So he jumped
on the table and started hacking the box with the shovel. Soon bits of
wood flew around the room as the top part of the box got hacked away.
When there was a hole sufficient enough to get to the contents of the
box, he grabbed with his fingers inside to discover that the box
contained earth from the "Diggin' for Gordon" Hole in Antwerp. He
turned the box over and poured the earth from the box in a heap on the
table.
Then he walked towards a toy rabbit that was taped to the wall and
ripped it off the wall holding it with his teeth. Growling and snarling
he shook his head around and proceeded to rip open the belly of the
rabbit with his teeth.

After the rabbit was torn open he continued to disembowel it, ripping
out the stuffed insides with his teeth and spitting them out across the
audience. Every bit of stuffing was preyed out with teeth and fingers
until the rabbit was nothing more but an empty flabbering piece of
cloth dangling loose from his hands.
Then he opened up the hole in the rabbit's belly, took a mouthful of
earth from the heap on the table and proceeded to refill the rabbit
with the earth from the Hole. Coughing, spitting, choking, moaning he
continued to move earth from the heap into the rabbit with his mouth
until it was completely filled up again.
While brown mud was still drooling from his mouth, he took the stuffed
rabbit in his arms and said "I think it is time we go to the Museum of
Contemporary Art now".

The Pori Museum of Contemporary Art was occasionally open till late in
the evening due to this kind of 'Museum Night', with some bands
playing, an occasional performance, and the usual dedicated audience
flocking towards the event.
Still dressed in his spit and mud covered raincoat, the dirty rabbit
on his arm, DDV walked around in the museum, explaining the
disemboweled animal what performance art and this "Diggin' for Gordon"
project was all about. Thereby he unnoticable poured the sand out of
the rabbit to form small heaps here and there in the museum rooms until
it was an empty and worn out piece of cloth again.

The performance finally ended when late at night or early in the
morning the rabbit was tied to a tree in a park, its legs stretched out
exposing the disemboweled belly to casual passers by who would joyfully
talk a walk there on a bright sunday morning in the sun.

http://www.bastard-art-gallery.com





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