“…the hrönir of the second and third degree…exaggerated the aberrations of the initial one; those of the fifth degree are almost uniform; those of the ninth degree become confused with those of the second; in those of the eleventh degree there is a purity of line not found in the original. The process is cyclical: the hron of the twelfth degree begins to fall off in quality.”
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, Jorge Luis Borges

"Crucifixion of Roy B" is a performance surrounding a body of reproductions, created over the span of a year and a half. I am interested in the repetitive expansions, contractions and mutations of the image, and the belief system pervasive within a hyperreal media-saturated culture. Reproducing pictures clipped out of bootleg encyclopedias and picture books, I ventured to confront the machine that writes our dreams and perpetuates re-representation of subject matter. I chose these images for their apparent familiarity, for they educed within me discomfiting feelings of nostalgia. The images, re-reproduced, became no more and no less real than their successor and predecessor. I, on the other hand, became overwhelmed by a mechanical drive and unyielding lack. The images disintegrated when approached, hovering just beyond tangibility, occupying the abject.

"Crucifixion of Roy B" is a deconstructive and iconoclastic performance, to subvert the cyclic and repetitious distortion and transformation of the image. The performance interplays science fiction and horror motifs, to accentuate the characteristic tone of the regulated environment. We must slaughter the replicant Roy Batty, symbol of our dystopia and face of our disdain, to release ourselves into the Void. "Crucifixion of Roy B" summons the moment of intuition in the human as automaton, the figure of compulsion, repetition and imbalance.

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