Christina
McPhee’s performances address conditions of traumatic memory, violence
and mimetic presence
Christina’s
performance practice comes out of painting and music, traditions in which
the architecture of the invisible is just as powerful as what can be seen:
what is not heard, what is off screen, is the sublime. Christina works out
of personal memory of sexual abuse into a larger dialectic relating to the
moral conditions of cyberconsciousness. The technobody of the netbased self
is projected as a cyborg whose body is coextensive with the net, and who
is a semi-autonomous agent. She is trapped behind the screen.
Her
gestures perform a series of looping sets and resets as attempts to communicate
with humans. Her iconology relates to our condition as networked beings
in the hyperreality of surveillance and control in the conditions of mass
global society.
Format: dvd
Memoires
of a Cyborg is a series of performances in private settings and at the Getty
Center, Los Angeles. The digital video performance footage was extensively
edited in Final Cut Pro and output to dvd in design collaboration with Terry
Hargrave. Christina matched sound files from a new corresponding electronic
musicsuite, 47 REDS/NAXSMASH 2002.
