100 Years of Aggression

Description:

100 Years of Aggression offers a triptych of simultaneous happenings. On one side of the stage, two people repeat a choreography of kissing, parting, and coming together again. Across from them, Kim Tomczak holds two tape machines up to a microphone to amplify audio recordings that include a conversation on liquor prices, and readings of political theory. A film collage of slow-motion footage from various twentieth-century horrors is projected behind the performers. Folded into the cacophony is Iggy Pop’s “New Values,” which skips in its looping playback. Together, the juxtaposition of symbols, icons, and imagery consider the violence of the everyday. 

Presented as part of the Living Art Performance Festival.

Video documentation is available upon request.