Jaime Fennelly, 2006

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Little brownies, little brownies, your mistress is dead

July 10 � July 21, 2005: Little brownies, little brownies, your mistress is dead. is an 11-day disembodied performative ritual that functions as a symbolic refusal of death through the act of death itself. Inspired by artifacts of the Lower Jurassic, evil averting and summoning practices of 18th century England and crude respiratory systems, the piece makes use of a 12� (diameter) octagonal-shaped room, 400 deceased honey bees (apis mellifera), a conical shaped pile of granulated quartz, twine residue and a harmonium from Old Delhi, India to create a space which reveals the concrete presence of opposition within reality � specifically oppositions within time and death. Acting as an accumulative disembodiment of the artist�s own performing experiences, he sought to envision an active environment that combined simple acoustical architecture, thus causing psychoacoustic phenomena, with solitary isolationism (even if viewed with others present).

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