Gorilla dialogue / Banana replicator act / BA NA NAS

‘Gorilla dialogue’, ‘The banana replicator act’, and ‘BA NA NAS’ are 3 performances/interventions in dialogue with the artworks of Angus Fairhurst. This series of 3 performances were held at Museum M, in Leuven (BE) on 3 consecutive days: 30, 31 July & 1 August 2010.

This project has been made possible in collaboration with 30CC Leuven and d e t h e a t e r m a k e r — photos: Elsbeth Neyens

#1 (Gorilla dialogue)
I am dressed in a banana costume and wander around the exhibition space.
I lay down in front of Angus Fairhurst’s gorilla costume (that he used for his video work “A cheap and ill-fitting gorilla suit” (’95)) and his photograph “Pietà” (’96).
I make a drawing of a banana.
I carefully slide a drawing in the direction of the gorilla and move back.
I repeat this action for an undetermined time.

#2 (Banana replicator act)
I am dressed in a banana costume.
I carry color markers, drawing paper, and a bunch of bananas and wander around the exhibition space.
I install myself in front of Angus Fairhurst bus stop “Shelter” (2006)
I eat a banana and place the peel on the drawing paper.
I trace the contours of the banana peel.
I eat the next banana.
I repeat this action for an undetermined time.

#3 (BA NA NAS)
We are dressed in banana costumes.
We wander around the exhibition space.
We take place in front of Angus Fairhurst’s artwork “Billboard, Everything but the outline blacked-in” (2003).
We shout as loud as possible to each other: “BA NA NAS”.
We repeat this action for an undetermined time.