III PERFORMANCES in WHITE CUBE 30 May – 5 July
linda lou murphy · senVoodoo (Aña Wojak & Fiona McGregor) · Alison Currie & 42a

senVoodoo (AñA Wojak & Fiona McGregor) ARTERIAL
Performance 6pm 12 June, in the gallery until 21 June

Arterial is a performance about loss and mourning that uses the primal medium of blood. The shrouded figures at once represent humanity and dehumanisation: in their veiled anonymity, are they protected or repressed? Are the hands pleading or offering? Is the white to be read as mourning or purity? Arterial is recontextualized with each new siting.

‘For millenia, across cultures, the bleeding body has been the location of drama, emotion, sacrifice and redemption. Religious and folk traditions throughout the world acknolwedged blood as a vital essence and bleeding as a ritualistic process of purifi cation and purging. Contemporary relevance continues in these times of plague, war and oppression.’

Artist’s notes.

senVoodoo at Experimental Art Foundation, 12 June 2008.

senVoodoo is a Sydney-based performance collective founded in 1999 by visual artist AñA Wojak and writer Fiona McGregor. Arterial was filmed in residency at Performance Space in December 2005 and subsequently shown at; Gallery 4A, Sydney, DIAF Festival, Beijing, and Galeria Wschodnia, Lodz, Poland. It was performed live throughout May and June in 2006 in Poland, including at Interakcje 8 - International Art Action Festival.

Visit senvoodoo online www.senvoodoo.com

Opening night images here →

Image credits (from top): Arterial, video still; Arterial, live performance, Interakcje8 International Art Action Meeting, Poland 2006. Photo by Marcin. EAF performance photos by Teri Hoskin