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Why let the chicken run?- Homage to Ana Mendieta

2001

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About the work

A repond to Jens Hoffman invitation to look back at the history of performance art I tool a reference of in 1972 work of a Cuban feminist Ana Mendieta (1945-1985) entitled “Death of the chicken” in which the killed a white chicken in order to speak her exile from her homeland and culture. This homage nonetheless clearly marks the Indonesian artist’s different approach to the same theme, as Suryodarmo lets the black rooster loose among the audience, chases and catches him again.

Duration: 15 minutes
Material: one big healthy black rooster

Performed at "A little bit of the History Repeated", curated by Jens Hoffman at the Kunst Werke, Berlin, Germany, 2001

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Photo: Roland Runge