Wet Feet/Dry Feet

Jorge Luis Morejon. Wet Feet / Dry Feet.

The Lab Sessions 1 .0. “Nodes & Naughty Codes.” Saturday, May 5th, 2007
http://www.labspacestudio.com/gallery/labSessions/index.php

Performance Artist: Jorge Luis Morejon Toronto.
York University. Accolade West. Room 009. Performance Art: Politics and Aesthetics. March 29, 2007
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Wet Feet / Dry Feet: Artistic Statement

Wet Foot/Dry Foot, a solo performance piece has three main parts, audiovisual, body and ritual. The role of video technology in this piece is to bring the urban scene into the performance space and ritual. The exploration of emotion is present in the ritual-like narrative piece. The images projected on the screen and the artist’s body moving in space, expressed through paper dolls, music, movement, soil and water convey a history of displacement and separation. The performance piece re-enacts the metaphorical past by constructing abstract images of displacement.

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The man in the video represents the urban need for grounding. In contrast, the loin clothed Taino embodies the emotion that results from his immediate immersion in the elements of earth and water. Both characters, the urban man and the Taino are intended to give the impression of being spiritually displaced. The idea of shared displacement allows the artist to explore the forging of a ritualized intimacy with the audience as he evokes the absence and ruptures of time and space through performance art.