In Practice Performances by Phillip Birch
Saturday, May 28 at 5pm
Sunday, June 12 at 3pm
Saturday, July 16 at 5pm
Sunday, July 31 at 2pm
Phillip Birch, The Oubliette, 2016, installation view, In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New, SculptureCenter, 2016. Digital video, plexiglas, holographic film, aluminum, silicone. Dimensions variable. Approx. 20:00 minutes, looped. Courtesy the artist and Lyles & King, New York. Photo: Kyle Knodell
Phillip Birch's presentation of The Oubliette, on view in In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New, examines the rising rates of schizophrenia and psychosis in a not-so-distant future where Vivisystems have eroded the last distinctions between the biological and the technological. A series of on-site performances by Birch will outline the history of this technological epoch and examine the etiology and pathophysiology of schizophrenia and its corollary to a position that has been described as After the Flesh.
Birch will perform at the following times: Saturday, May 28 at 5pm; Sunday, June 12 at 3pm; Saturday, July 16 at 5pm; and Sunday, July 31 at 2pm.
