- BodyArt

Unsealed: Public Performances in the Virginarium

The Vastal Virginarium is a six person Glove Box artistically designed by Adam Zaretsky and Mason Juday for BioArt Laboratories and public performances, which revolve around cultural interpretive issues of purity, sterility and cleanliness. Much like a sterile hood used in biology for pure culture technique, this glove box has positive air pressure.

The VASTAL Virginarium is a collaborative cultural containment stage for: Sterile Field Inter-Public Body Art Performances

Various performance artists will be ritually cleansed and enter the glove box one or two at a time. Various performance artists take turns in the box interacting with the public or other actors reaching into them with the gloves. This is experimental Body Art with a biological theme that references experiments, lab animals, the pure and the impure as well as the distance (or presumed distance) that objectivity implies.

Glove Box
A glove box is a techno-purified place, but as an artistic / creative aseptic arena, the VASTAL Virginarium is purely for cultural production. It represents a return to ourselves as animals, experiments, faulty and in disarray, but also as changeable and in process. There is ultimately no absolute chastity or true cleanliness, passage is from one form to another into another again. However, through emulation of purification and altered versions of artistic isolation we will try to help garnish public acceptance of the imperfectability of living in this uterine world.

Design
Adam Zaretsky and Mason Juday
Architecture and Laser Fabrication
Mason Juday
Tentative Performers
Boryana Rossa, Oleg Mavromatti, Zoot Derks, Jeanette Groenendaal, WarBear