;ization ;izer ;ized
;ization ;izer ;ized
- Artist: Emilio Rojas
- Year: 2013
- Duration: 14:92
- Country: Canada
;ization ;izer ;ized juxtaposes the artist's personal narratives with video images of colonialism, chronicles from the trips of Christopher Columbus (in Spanish Cristobal Colon) and different diagnostic colonoscopies. Connecting the personal, the social, the historical, the medical, the erotical, and the abject to the repetition of the action of introducing corks into the artist's rectum. This performance invokes a memory of a homophobic remark spoken to the artist when he was a child: “If you are going to sleep in the same bed, you better put a cork up your ass.” The work additionally invokes memories relate to childhood sexual explorations, homophobia, and the construction of the artist's own gender identity. juxtaposes the artist's personal narratives with video images of colonialism, chronicles from the trips of Christopher Columbus (in Spanish Cristobal Colon) and different diagnostic colonoscopies. Connecting the personal, the social, the historical, the medical, the erotical, and the abject to the repetition of the action of introducing corks into the artist's rectum. This performance invokes a memory of a homophobic remark spoken to the artist when he was a child: “If you are going to sleep in the same bed, you better put a cork up your ass.” The work additionally invokes memories relate to childhood sexual explorations, homophobia, and the construction of the artist's own gender identity.
- Accession #: 5316
- Distribution Status: In Distribution