Body Fluid

Description:

Presented as part of Luminous Sites, Body Fluid was a “performing installation” by Paul Wong conceived as a site-specific work for the truck turntable in the Sears/Harbour Centre underground shipping and receiving area in downtown Vancouver. 

The work presented a maximalist, electronic spectacle featuring a cast of live performers, video projections, quadraphonic sound, lighting effects, smoke machines, and mechanical devices. Performers embodied stylized and symbolic roles—a saxophone-playing biker, a teenage baton twirler, a beauty queen, shirtless male models, and a female People’s Liberation Army soldier. Revolving around the turntable—both literally and figuratively—the performance unfolded as a structuralist rearrangement of the elements of television.  Performers included Paul McKenzie, Nicole Pawluk, Denise Lane, Peter Bingham, David Jackson, and Deborah Fong.

Curated by Daina Augaitis and Karen Henry.

Video documentation is available upon request.