Remember this post from about 18 mos ago when I wrote about wanting to do a performance piece on infertility in response to the woman who gave birth as one? Well, someone else thought it would be a good idea too:
Encouraging
transparency and demystification through baring her body and fertility
journey, Marilee will become LIVING ART by literally taking her IVF
hormone injections to the streets. This piece will take place over a 14
day period where every IVF injection will be visually accessible to the
public and Live Streamed across the country on USTREAM. "There is so
much isolation in this process. Even after 35 years of IVF procedures,
people still have no idea what it truly involves and the intense highs
and lows that women and couples go through. It's about time to break
this silence and taking ownership over this process inherently filled
with uncertainty."
On May 30th, 8 pm Marilee will do her first public injection at
SOMArts as part of one of two full evening performance art pieces.
During this performance, she will be unveiling her art installation
inspired by a 1920's broken down hospital room, which will be open to
viewers for the duration of the two weeks. From May 30th-June 12th as
the hormone injections begin to affect Marilee's body, she will
externalize her internal physical changes by transforming the old and
distressed hospital installation into a vibrant and lush garden
Wonder if I can sue; ha! And why is it that all I can think of when I hear "performance art" is this?
Yup, everything comes back to 'The Big Lebowski'.
1 comment:
I thought about video documenting this FET for our future offspring but as a performance piece? Um, no!
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