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Gallery 'Yard',
Pancevo, SCG
18 June 2003 at 00:10 a.m.
Duration: 20'
Curator: Svetlana Mladenov
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LEFT - RIGHT was the third and the final intimate performance by MP
through which they made unity with each other.
M & P stood in contra-post positions covered with transparent fabric around
their hips and illuminated by red light. M stood in front of a red panel
on which hung a small painting LEFT and P stood in front of a black panel
with a painting RIGHT hung.
The performance began when all of the exclusively invited audience members
occupied their places in the gallery. 30 seconds after the music started,
performer C came into the spotlight. He prepared equipment for tattooing.
He tattooed the left arm of P with the word 'RIGHT' in black ink.
After finishing tattooing P's arm, performer C changed the needle
and color tank on the tattooing machine and tattooed the right arm of
M with the word 'LEFT' in red ink. The entire time M looked to the profile
of P, who was looking straight ahead.
The
performance ended when performer C finished tattooing M and cleaned the
equipment and left the spotlight. After 30 seconds the light and sound
were turned off and the intimate performance was finished!
The symbolism of the performance is complex and has different roots. According
to the Bible the protector stays on the right-hand side. The first man
[Adam/androgen] had a left part female and right part male, and later
the Creator separated it into two. Generally, Christianity has adopted
that the left side is female with the meaning of darkness, night, and
satanic, and the right side is male with the meaning of light, day and
divine. The left side symbolized vulnerability and insecurity and accordingly
also youth, while the right side symbolized power and success and accordingly
old age. Respect of God is shown by turning to the right side, never to
the left. The left side had a passive meaning and the right side active;
the left symbolized the past which man cannot influence, while the right
side symbolized the future. The left side is also disastrous and the right
side is beneficial.
In eastern symbolisms the relations between left and right are completely
different than the symbolism in Christianity: the left side represents
sky and it is respectable, dignified, and belonging to wisdom and faith.
The right side is in relation to the moon, water with the female elements.
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