2019

Live Performance / Video / Machine Learning

San Francisco Start Up Art Fair / Los Angeles Start Up Art Fair / Berkeley Art Centre Museum

This piece is the last work of a triad of performances about the encounter between immigration policies and the art world. In the first one, Galli, dressed as a bride, crawls through the streets of San Francisco for two hours. The second, premiered at stARTup SF 2018, she is tethered to a heavy cement “bridal” sculpture that she labours to move, pulling it three feet in two hours.

For this performance Guta encloses herself inside a dark, small shipping container for 3 hours with little room to move. In this enclosure, she engages with the audience through a small hole. Security cameras placed inside the crate  live streamed the interior. An artificial intelligence device interfered with the images whenever someone approached or physically interacted with the performer, playing with the paradoxes and ambiguities that shape the relationship between artist/audience.

Teaser for O1