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Vay Kay was a multi-faceted performance project presented over the course of five days for the 2009 Here/Not There series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Manifesting in four major performance/installations, Vay Kay was an exploration of the ironic tension between work and play created by ever shrinking windows of leisure time. These precious moments of "vacation" have become increasingly stressful in a culture that doesn't really know how to stop working and can only feign states close to the resemblance of relaxed. Vay Kay was made possible with the invalluable collaborations of Ross Moreno, Dave Snyder, Lucy Chinen, and Jayve Montgomery. |
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| Day 1 kicked off the series with a visceral deconstruction of an argument had by the artist's travel-weary family during a vacation from his childhood. Here we find a microcosm of human society, condensced to the size of a car and hurtling at breakneck speed towards the Arizona meteor crater and a Hobbsean state of nature... |
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Day 2 finds the artist outside the museum engaged in an absurd gesture: watering astroturf in the rain. The garden hoses created a gestural drawing as he moved the sprinklers in multiple configurations. |
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With Day 3, Justin Cooper and Lucy Chinen struggle valiantly with a 50'x50' piece of astroturf that has been fitted with steel armatures. They attempt to "crumple" it into a ball as if it is a piece of paper... |
Day 3 (fast) |
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