Archive item for Positive

, , Oraf Sept. 6 – 27, 1997
Documentation of performance/installation Rubicon at grunt gallery on Sept. 6, 1997. Approximately 20 minutes. Part of Positive series. Performance explores impact of AIDS on intimacy, media attention, and the relationship between death and desire. Performance begins with performer spray painting stencil on sidewalk with recorded voice over monologue, performer enters gallery by cutting through plastic screen, changes into rubber boots and walks in river of blood-coloured water, recites some text, lays face down in pool of water, and invites audience to walk to across it.