My Adventure in the world of New York City Performance Art
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou's performance was an intellectual feast of challenging our own preconceptions of gender, nationality, sexuality. One of the performances I was able to check out on my recent sojourn to NYC was Preach R. Sun's Chrysalis (Cry + Solace) , a performance I will write about in more depth later. Through him, I met Jill McDermid Hokanson& Erik Hokanson of Grace Space and Gray Zone and given a crash-course on the world of performance art. Some of the artists I had the distinction of seeing include, MEHDI-GEORGES LAHLOU [MOROCCO/BELGIUM/FRANCE] whose performance in red pumps, running on a treadmill while singing " Run, run, baby, baby, run run ," among other ditties, and pouring a variety of seasonings on himself, well was, let's just say deliciously thought-provoking on subjects such as gender, religion, nationality. As China conquers the world, artists challenge what they cannot in their ancestral ...