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An Act of Communion: installation and performance piece by Matthew Morris on 3-29-04 in the basement of the Art academy of Cincinnati. |
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Installation works oftentimes live on only in the minds of those that witnessed it and in the documentation of the piece. Here I have collected images of the bread and juice before and after the performance as well as more artistic or specific photographs of the components of the completed installation. The media was ten loaves of Sunbeam bread, four jugs of generic grape juice, a plastic pitcher, and myself, barefooted, as the tender/performer of the piece. |
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The Performance consisted of my pouring the jugs of juice onto the loaves, and it spreading into a dark red puddle throughout that area of the basement. Olfactory experience was important in engaging the piece- the subtle bread smell upon entering the basement, and the pugent grape smell that intensified and permeated the basement as I poured the juice. Another part that time played in this piece was the disentegration of the bread- the 'breaking' of it from the juice saturation. |
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This piece developed to become reactionary to the audience of the piece (my Creative Processes class). I was inspired by the work of Tony Tasset, Ann Hamilton, Lynn Aldrich, and of Mel Gibson's film The Passion. |
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