Suka Off: tranSfera
@ Defibrillator Gallery
1136 N Milwaukee Avenue
Opening Friday, October 18th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, October 18th
SUKA OFF is a POLAND based artist collective existing since 1995. the members of SUKA OFF are PIOTR WEGRZYNSKI (founder, visual artist, performer) and SYLVIA LAJBIG (classical philologist, performer). they have been creating work across visual theatre, performance art, club action, installation, photography, video art and music visuals. SUKA OFF’s work has been presented in theaters, art galleries, clubs and festivals in most EUROPEAN countries, as well as in CANADA, USA, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, CHILE, MEXICO and JAPAN. for over 10 years they have been lecturing and leading workshops in POLAND and abroad.
tranSfera begins with a woman lying on a white mattress in the pose of sleeping hermaphrodite. when the man enters her space, it’s like if he entered the stream of SALMAKIS – he begins the ritual of self-alteration. the man and woman try to become one with use of physical and multimedia processes. they replace natural senses with electronic devices to be able to look and sound the same. but the “remixed” version of themselves remains abstracted from their bodies and is visible only in the stream of electrical impulses and light from a projector. the roles of male and female in “tranSfera” are based on GREEK philosophers, who considered woman as the matter – wet, mutable and unbounded, while the man was dry, stable and bounded. In the process of creation man determines the form and woman contributes the matter. the artists are not interested in the sociological, cultural or political context of this theory. they are transferring it into the field of visual arts and replacing the traditional “material” and “tool” with the “female” and “male”. to learn more about the project visit sukaoff-transfera.blogspot.com/p/ performance.html
photo credits: tranSfera by SUKA OFF photographer: MANUEL VASON (www.manuelvason.com)
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Tags: Body Modification, dfb, Dfbrl8r, Fetish, Noble Square, performance art, PIOTR WEGRZYNSKI, Suka Off, SYLVIA LAJBIG
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