liquid skyline

Taking inspiration from the film Liquid Sky (circa 1983) – Liquid Skyline offered a superficial solution to the pressures of contemporary urban existence. In the film, Margaret begs the flying saucer that has landed on her rooftop to take her away. She has witnessed alien consumption of persons engaged in sex or injecting heroin, and hopes to be similarly consumed. In the performance environment, it is hoped that we may be likewise transported by the excess and orgasmic sensory delight of vapoury cocktails, flavoured lip glosses, brightly coloured Jell-O substances, Cheese Whiz, and other synthetic materials. Seemingly beyond hope and caught in the loop of the consumption/destruction cycle of late capitalism, we might momentarily engage in a kind of synthetic, sensory forgetting that dispels contemporary anxieties.

Toronto, On
FADO
OCAD Professional Gallery
Curated by Paul Couillard
2006

Photography: Miklos Legrady