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Performance

The Sun is Crooked in the Sky...by Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa

Wednesday / Jun 29 / 05
7:00 pm


Implant
58 Wade Avenue, Unit 12
Toronto

On June 29, FADO kicks off its new IDea series with The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is Thrown over my Shoulders, a continuous 100-hour performance by Guatemalan-born Canadian artist Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa.

The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is Thrown over my Shoulders is a visceral, searching visual and action-based exploration of aspects of the artist’s personal history. In his notes for the performance, Ramirez-Figueroa writes:

“The artist’s family, like many other Guatemalan -- and Latin American -- families, has dealt with common, though taboo issues of class and race differences that have affected the family dynamic. In the case of Ramirez-Figueroa there is a history of indigenous women having the children of whiter men, men who become fathers unwilling to recognize the children as their own. By using metaphorical elements of his childhood -- like powdered milk -- and through sleep deprivation, Ramirez-Figueroa will push the limits of his endurance with the purpose of reaching an altered state of consciousness through which to meditate upon a genealogy of absent white fathers."

[ IDea ]

+ PHOTO GALLERY: The Sun is Crooked in the Sky...
+ ESSAY by Irene Loughlin