Salt Lick Labyrinth: Corpus: Medical Debt
@ Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 6PM - 6:30PM
“Corpus: Medical Debt” is a performance created as part of Gabriel Chalfin-Piney’s ever-shifting performance collective Salt Lick Labyrinth. The group performing at the Design Museum of Chicago on October 11th at 6pm includes Clients (Patients): Ruby Que and Gabriel Chalfin-Piney, Practitioners (Body workers): Vannah and Dr Tolga Yenilmez, Sound of Mouth (Cellist): Lia Kohl
Salt Lick Labyrinth’s performance is presented as part of the closing reception for the “Voices Embodied” exhibition at the Design Museum of Chicago.
Defined by the welcoming color story taken from disposable dental bibs, Chalfin-Piney’s modular sculpture-set invites from afar with its cooling colors yet produces a painful wince at closer inspection. A densely populated altar offers intimate moments from the artist’s hand and mouth. The work shows the medical world slowly taking over nature through color, with elements of hope shining through. The rocks collected by Chalfin-Piney are part of the artist’s personal collection of found gua sha tools, which morphed into stim toys overtime—lake and ocean gifted, untouched by western medicine. The sculpture acts as a set and first act for the performance by Salt Lick Labyrinth “Corpus” revealing two stories—one of dental trauma and the disabling chronic pain created during a series of medical malpractice surgeries— one of physical relief and healing outside of the medical industrial complex: a path that might offer a modicum of relief from a body attacking itself.
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Tags: Chicago, Corpus: Medical Debt, Design Museum of Chicago, Dr Tolga Yenilmez, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney, Lia Kohl, Loop, Ruby Que, Salt Lick Labyrinth, Salt Lick Labyrinth: Performance, Vannah, Voices Embodied
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