On November 6, 2010 Michael Dudeck will present a prototype of a performance and a series of drawings and texts that he has been working on during his residency. VOWS is a durational residency which involves a 28-day vow of silence he has undertaken while developing this body of work.
Dudeck’s work centers on an invented religion and queer prehistory, which radically re-imagines the nature of human origins. Humans separate into all male, and all female homo-normative societies, where heterosexuality is reserved only for the purposes of procreation. Currently Dudeck is in the process of designing and building an exhibition focused on the female tribe and its war rituals. The residency is dedicated to creating a vast cosmogony through text, image, and performance wherein he anthropologically examines an invented female warrior culture.
The performance on November 6 will feature the artist as the multi-breasted AMYGDALA, performing an ancient rite wherein portions of this invented cosmogony are recited whilst under ritual trance.
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