Politics

Artist: Heide Hatry
Production year: 2007
Duration: 00:00:00
Catalogued as: PERFORMANCE, DOCUMENTATION, CONCEPTUAL/CEREBRAL, SOCIAL/POLITICAL, CULTURE/IDENTITY, EXPANDED SCULPTURE

The Politics performance took place on September 11, 2007, at 6am in Central Park (near 106th Street and 5th Avenue) I skipped down a little hill in wearing a white dress. I had previously placed an American flag sewn together out of untreated pigskin on the ground. l painted the appropriate stripes of the flag with blood. I undressed myself and poured a gallon of pig’s blood over my naked body, covered my bloody body with the flag, and then disappeared up the hill. This work is a consid ...

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