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Viewing report
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"The 3 pigs". Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 60
This book is about an interactive performance 'The 3
pigs'- april 4,
2007 at 7pm
in the Laura Mesaros Gallery, Morgantown WV.
A dramatic parody
within the realm of conceptual art. Transplanting
the moral from a
traditional tale (The Three Little Pigs) to a
current world of politics
and iconized and institutional
ideas, “The 3 Pigs” questions definitions and ways
of acting. The
objective was to trigger the interactive process and
bring awareness
to alliances that attribute identities and provokes
fear towards the
other. The pigs-wolves situation and the gallery-
artist situation are
related to the U.S.-Mexico situation. Connected by
the idea for the
need for “walls” to ‘protect’ them from a specific
interaction, fear
converts society, represented by the pigs and
audience members,
into the terrorists, the wolves.
The script treats fear as a major
ingredient for failure and an instrument for
political manipulation.
The “other” becomes the wolf, and the “wall” becomes
a symbol.
Separating the good ones (pigs) and the bad ones
(wolves), the
symbol acquires major importance.
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