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David
Hammons's new creation for the 3X3 project
will be entitled 2004 Dak'Art Sheep Raffle. For
this site-specific, performance-based work, Hammons will raffle
off two sheep to the people of Dakar in their neighborhoods in
a new site each day. Raffle tickets, written in French and Wolof,
the languages spoken in Senegal, will be distributed daily. To
advertise this performance-based work, radio spots will air on
local stations and billboard advertisements will be posted. The
project will be documented with photographs, digital video and
recorded sound. 2004 Dak'Art Sheep Raffle presents a criticism
and a challenge to the art world, and especially, the global commerce
of the art biennale. 2004 Dak'Art Sheep Raffle highlights
and draws upon Hammons’s work with the ephemeral as an important
aspect of his conceptual art practice and another dimension to
his long critique of the fetishization and commodification of
the art object. By focusing on process and rituals, rather than
the final product, Hammons reenacts the idea of the performative
as it is conceived in the context of West Africa and the urban
cultures of black America.
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Maria
Magdalena Campos-Pons's new work for
Dak'Art 2004, Threads of Memory, will build on Mil
maneras para decir adios, a five-screen video installation
recently conceived and exhibited at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter
in Oslo, Norway in 2003. The final work will incorporate new elements
conceived as a site-specific installation for a converted textile
factory. Dakar constitutes for the artist a site of memory and
longing associated with herself, a diasporic Cuban subject of
African descent. Five parallel stories of memory, diaspora and
displacement will unfold behind intricate polymer mosaic constructions
forming a horizontal narrative projected on five screens. The
colors of the videos are delivered as a contrast and complement
to the vertical blue, amber and purple polymer elements of the
installation.
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Pamela
Z will perform An Evening of Works
for Voice, Electronics and Video at the Théâtre
National Daniel Sorano on the opening night of Dak'Art 2004. The
performance will include several excerpts from the following of
her past large-scale multimedia works: Parts of Speech,
a work about the many facets of human language; Gaijin,
a work that explores the concept of foreignness; and Voci,
a solo opera for voice processing which explores the artistic,
scientific, and cultural worlds of the human voice. Each of these
works utilizes solo voice, processing, samples, and video projections.
Also part of the program that evening will be a performance segment
that will be a partner piece to the new sound installation, Just
Dust. Conceived for the historic Maison des esclaves on Goree
Island, it will be a six channel audio installation that will
run for the duration of the biennale. The sound being used in
the piece consists of samples of spoken text in English, French,
and Wolof layered with sampled sounds of birds, sheep and people
recorded during the artist's first visit to Dakar in December
2003. The Maison des esclaves is an important site of memory for
diasporic Africans, marking the infamous 'door of no return,'
the symbolic portal through which enslaved Africans forcibly left
the continent.
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