DAILY REFLECTION
first performed on May 25, 2019
ITINERANT Performance Art Festival, Queens Museum, Queens, NY; Last Frontier, New York, NY
performed twice in 2019
NATACHA VOLIAKOVSKY
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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DAILY REFLECTION
NATACHA VOLIAKOVSKY
I buy the newspaper of the day in New York. I read it. I select the news that is oppresive towards the corporalities of Latino immigrants, women, and non-binary identities. I rip the news that legitimizes this kind of thinking in American society.
I put the pieces of paper one by one inside my mouth and start chewing them. I absorb the ink as if I could absorb its symbolic meaning. The paper is not degraded, nor what it contains. I keep introducing news in my mouth. One by one until the newspaper ends. I can barely close my mouth but I keep chewing. I have a big news bolus in my mouth. I keep chewing for a while. I take the bolus out of my mouth and leave it on the floor.