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The Skin Room

Artist: Heide Hatry
Production year: 2006
Duration: 00:00:00
Catalogued as: PERFORMANCE, DOCUMENTATION, SOCIAL/POLITICAL, SCIENCE/NATURE, EXPANDED SCULPTURE

The Skin Room performance took place from January 13-15, 2006, in the Kunstverein in Heidelberg, Germany. As a soloist intoned a siren-like song, composed by Sidney Corbett, and whose text is a poem by Leonardo da Vinci in which the Renaissance master gives voice to the fear of the unknown, I solemnly entered the exhibition space. Wearing a sleeveless white long wedding gown carrying the bloodied lifeless carcass of a slaughtered pig to a stainless steel butcher’s table, where I skinned ...

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