Performing Diagnostics

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tagny — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:38:08 +0000

Some documents and text score from event at Articule (Feb.1)

tagny — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:29:24 +0000

Video Still: Cam

Performance objects:
Multiwell reaction plates with antigen
Elisa simulation kit
pipettes
Reusable plastic bottle containers
Reusable glass jars
Recycled garbage found in downtown Montreal
Large table

Performance score for imaginary antibodies:

1.Well A1: Add 10 drops of serum 1 +10 drops PBS buffer
2.Well B1: Add 5 drops of serum 1 + 15 drops PBS buffer
3. Well C1: Add 1 drop of serum 1 + 19 drops PBS buffer
4. Well A2: Add 10 drops of serum 2 + 10 drops PBS buffer
1. Well B2: Add 5 drops of serum 2 + 15 drops PBS buffer
2. Well C2: Add 1 drop of serum 2 + 19 drops of PBS Buffer
3. Well A3: Add 10 drops of serum 3 + 10 drops PBS buffer
4. Well B3: Add 5 drops serum 3 + 15 drops PBS buffer
5. Well C3: Add 1 drop of serum 3 + 19 drops PBS Buffer
6. Well A4: Add 20 drops PBS buffer
7. Well B4: Add 20 drops PBS buffer
8. Well C4: Add 20 drops PBS buffer
9. Well A5: Add 10 drops MRSA control + 10 drops PBS buffer
10. Well B5: Add 5 drops MRSA control + 15 drops PBS buffer
11. Well C5: Add 1 drop MRSA control +19 drops PBS buffer
12. Let stand 1 minute
13. Remove fluid from wells A1,B1 and C1.
14. Remove fluid from wells A2, B2 and C2.
15. Remove fluid from wells A3, B3, and C3
16. Remove fluid from wells A4, B4, and C4
17. Remove fluid from wells A5, B5, and C5
18. Add 10 drops of anti-human antibody to A1-A5, B1-B5, and C1-C5
19. Repeat steps 17-21.
20. Add 2 drops of colourmetric enzyme solution to A1-A5, B1-B5 and C1-C5
21. Look for change in colour.
22. Repeat 17-21.
23. Gather all materials not used with the liquid and place in biodegradable recycling bags until no object of the installation remains.
24. Walk out of gallery to recycling bins across street and dispose of materials.

Performance at Articule Feb 1st, 2009

tagny — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:57:40 +0000

***English below***

LES PROJETS SPÉCIAUX @ ARTICULE PRÉSENTE:

En collaboration avec InTerreArt (http://interreart.blogspot.com)

Performers Interconnectées

Performances de Tagny Duff, André Éric Letourneau et Nicole Fournier

Commissaire: Nicole Fournier

Dimanche le 01 février 2009

chez articule (262 Fairmount O.)

Performing Diagnostics

Installation-performance à partir de midi, action à 18h30

Ciné-Parc pour chiens de traîneau

Action-manoeuvre à 18h30

Interconnections entre personnes, chiens, micro-espèces, nourritures,…en action

Installation-performance à partir de midi, action à 19h et 19h30

SVP notez que vos chiens sont invités aux performances, à partir de 18h3

Performers Interconnectées porte sur les relations interespèces, les relations interhumaines, les bio-oeuvres, l’écologie, les biotopes, les interconnexions avec des performeurs non-humains. L’évènement aborde le thème des interrelations humaines et de la collectivité, en utilisant la matière vivante, les bactéries, les fungis, et les collectivités cellulaires (dont sont faits les êtres humains et les autres espèces), dans une performance non-cellulaire et virale, interconnectée à la vie. Il s’agit de performances invisibles qui se déroulent tant dans le microcosme que dans le macrocosme.

http://interconnectedperformers.blogspot.com/

L’installation-performance de TagnyDuff, Performing Diagnostics invite les visiteurs de la galerie à participer à une performance collective autour du test de dépistage du virus HIV, en utilisant le protocole « ELISA » (dosage d’immunosorption liée à enzyme). Le dépistage sera fait à partir de déchets collectés dans des poubelles de recyclage- l’anti-thèse des techniques stériles pratiquées dans l’environnement des laboratoires. La performance donnera aussi à voir une manoeuvre collective au cours de laquelle les visiteurs seront invités à disposer des déchets (et finalement, de l’installation elle-même). La galerie deviendra un lieu où se crée et se développe les déchets biologiques et pathogènes développés par ses visiteurs humains-animaux.

Afin de participer à la performance de dépistage « Elisa », merci de vous inscrire à l’adresse suivante : tagny3@sympathico.ca avant le dimanche 1er février.

http://performingdiagnostics.wordpress.com/

La manoeuvre d’André Éric Letourneau, Ciné-Parc pour chiens de traîneau, traite de la transportation du pollen par les mammifères, dans le cas présent, par les chiens. Ceux-ci se frottent tout naturellement aux plantes durant leurs divagations. Ils consomment aussi les semences qui se cachent ensuite dans leurs selles, contribuant ainsi à la propagation des espèces végétales et à leur répartition naturelle sur leurs territoires. Le Ciné-Parc pour chiens de traîneau est aménagé en face de la galerie articule. Les chiens (“stationnés”) sont invités à regarder le tout premier épisode de «Six Million Dollar Man» à travers la vitre de la galerie. Attirés par la nourriture peinte sur la vitrine de la galerie, ils mangeront, dévoreront, ou au moins lècheront amoureusement, Steve Austin, pour en digérer l’essence et l’évacuer plus plus tard, fécondant ainsi (symboliquement) le sol montréalais de semences bioniques.

Nicole Fournier présentera The Interconnections of people, dogs, fungi, food…performing. Ce travail réunit des meubles recyclés transformés par les aléas du climat, la préparation de nourriture, ainsi que de la nourriture en décomposition (compost). Fournier utilisera sa voix, sa débrousailleuse, un rasoir, un sèche-cheveux, une perceuse et un jouet-requin pour opérer des actions sur la nourriture et les plantes, dans la terre ou en train de cuire sur des plaques chauffantes. Entremêlant ceci avec des jeux entre elle et son chien « Whistler », Fournier préparera aussi de la nourriture qu’elle partagera avec le public. L’extravagance d’actions improvisées sera jumelée avec des actions planifiées ou contrôlées, incluant celle de peindre de la nourriture sur les murs de la galerie que vous et votre chien serez invités à manger.

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SPECIAL PROJECTS @ ARTICULE PRESENTS:

in collaboration with InTerreArt (http://interreart.blogspot.com)

Interconnected Performers

Performances by Tagny Duff, André Éric Letourneau and Nicole Fournier

Curator: Nicole Fournier

Sunday February 01, 2009

at articule (262 Fairmount W.)

Performing Diagnostics

Installation-performance starting at noon, action at 6:30pm

Drive-in for sled dogs

Happening at 6:30pm

The Interconnections of people,dogs, fungi, food,…performing

Installation-performance starting at noon, action at 7pm and 7:30pm

Please note your dogs are invited to the performance, starting at 6:30pm.

Interconnected Performers showcases some of the concerns of interspecies relations, interhuman relations, bioworks, ecologies and interconnections with non-human performers. The event addresses human interrelationships and collectivity using living matter, bacteria, fungi and cellular collectivity (which make up humans and other species), along with non-cellular, viral performance, interconnected to life. It is about invisible performances that take place in the microcosm and the macrocosm.

http://interconnectedperformers.blogspot.com/

Tagny Duff’s performance-installation, Performing Diagnostics, invites gallery visitors to collectively perform the testing for the presence of HIV via protocols performed through the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The “testing” will be performed with garbage collected from recycling bins, the antithesis of sterile technique practiced in laboratory environments. The performance will also feature a collective action where visitors are invited to dispose of the waste (and ultimately the installation). The gallery becomes a place for creating and processing biological waste and pathogens created by its human-animal visitors.

To participate in the ELISA testing aspect of the performance please email tagny3@sympatico.ca before Sunday February 1.

http://performingdiagnostics.wordpress.com/

André Éric Letourneau’s Drive-in for sled dogs is about the transportation of pollen by mammals, in this case dogs. As mammals brush against plants in the wilderness, they pick up pollen on their fur or consume seeds and excrete them, thus allowing for the propagation of plant species. Drive-in for sled dogs will be set up in front of articule. There, dogs will be parked and invited to watch the very first episode of the “Six Million Dollar Man”. Attracted to food painted on the storefront window, they will eat, devour, or at the very least lick Steve Austin, digesting him and expelling him further away, hence pollinating the soil with his bionic seed.

Nicole Fournier will present The interconnections of people, dogs, fungi, food…performing. This work brings together recycled furniture altered by the climate, food preparation and decomposing food (composting). Fournier will use her voice, weedeater, razor, hair dryer, drill and toy shark to perform actions on food and plants in earth that will be cooking on a stovetop. Intermixed with play between herself and her dog “Whistler”, Fournier will also be preparing and sharing food with the public. The wildness of unpredictable improvised actions will be paired with planned or controlled actions, such as painting food on the gallery wall, which spectators and their dogs will be invited to eat.

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tagny — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:52:12 +0000

New performance

tagny — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:00:52 +0000

The latest version of Performing Diagnostics is a one day performance installation that will take place on Sunday February 1st at Articule in Montreal. Press information with details for time and place will be release next week.

Performing Diagnostics:

Take a dash of donkey antibody. Mix with monkey secondary antibody. Add antigen taken from a genetically modified lab mouse. Stir gently with a plastic spoon found in the garbage dump. Take needle tips unearthed from landfill located near the incineration waste facility and carefully dissolve them in a beaker of bleach. Put both mixtures in a petri dish made from egg shells to see the enzyme reaction to determine a diagnosis. Is it positive or negative?

This performance installation re-imagines biotech protocols for diagnostic testing in relation to waste. Here, high-tech bio-surveillance lab equipment meets low-tech DIY recycling and craft; glossy sterile lab materials meet contaminated garbage. In Performing Diagnostics the art gallery is amplified as a vector for processing biological waste and pathogens created by its human-animal visitors.

Gallery visitors are invited to perform the protocols for ELISA (Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay) – a scientific protocol with medical applications to test for the presence of HIV and breast cancer – with garbage collected from recycling bins in Montreal. The re-use of garbage in biomedical and biotech practices proposes a DIY ethos, where anyone could potentially create an HIV testing kit from found objects, and complicates the segregation of purity from waste in the methodology of testing for ‘diseases’. Visitors are further invited to collectively perform the sterilization and waste disposal of all materials generated during the performance. Ultimately, the contamination of viral, bacterial, cellular, molecular, environmental bodies is contemplated as a potentially productive relation, albeit, entirely unscientific!

performing diagnosis

Upcoming

tagny — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:25:09 +0000

Photo: Anonymous

A newer version of the performance first done at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (April 2008) will be shown at Subversiv Messe in Linz, Austria during Mid-May 2009. See below for details.

Counter Culture and Resistance Technology Fair

tagny — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:59:29 +0000

Check out the website for Subversiv messe hosted by Social Impact in the blogroll. I have been invited to perform “performing Diagnostics” for this event held in Linz, Austria in May 2009.

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COUNTER CULTURE AND RESISTANCE TECHNOLOGY FAIR
14 – 17 May 09
Idea / Concept / Realization: Social Impact

What inventions make resistance easier? Can we identify the seeds of revolutionary movements? What kinds of ideas have the potential to infiltrate the system? What can we do to undermine the powers that be?
Fashion and advertising, technology, hardware, software, the public domain and the order of things: what we see, what we use, how we act and how we behave, all this is subject to rules and regulations that are hardly ever questioned, rarely even noticed. How might intermeshing the industries of advertising, fashion and music with the sex appeal of active resistance work? How can the room for manoeuvre be altered, expanded, utilized? And will the world be any different afterwards? The SUBVERSIV MESSE alerts us to opportunities and points of view to help us understand mechanisms that have remained hitherto unnoticed and to conduct a critical debate about their consequences. The exhibition section will introduce ‘highlights of subversion’ and methods that demonstrate what individuals can do to put together an effective assault on ossified structures. Workshops, presentations, guided tours with an emphasis on the hands-on approach, product demonstrations and film screenings will provide background knowledge and an awareness of the possibility to strike back. We get a chance to sample new technologies, products and practices of cultural and political resistance and discuss them with artists and activists.

Art & Action Research

Since 1997 Social Impact has been active in a number of different artistic genres to expand the manoeuvring space for marginalized groups. Migration, surveillance and repression have been points of reference for regional interventions and exemplary models of socio-political development. Examples of actions taken so far: research on and publication of illegal routes into the EU for refugees; conception and distribution of a language guide for sex workers working the streets; fashion collection against police violence and racism; emergency accommodation for the homeless and for asylum seekers.

CREW //
Isa Herber (Management), Anna Kindler (Fund raising), Barbara Pitschmann (Head of project), Hannes Schoiswohl (Research), Harald Schmutzhard (Overall coordination)

A Linz09 project

Documents from the PICA event (April 2008)

tagny — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:34:37 +0000

Photo: Tagny Duff

This earlier version of Performing Diagnostics took place at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art during the public exhibition of works created as part of “In situ/ In vitro?”. Public visitors were invited to perform a simulated HIV test using the ELISA method. The action of testing for one’s own HIV status (albeit a hypothetical one) in the context of the art gallery amplified a sense of play, curiosity, and some hesitation. The collision of the tools of artistic production and biomedical science created a tension for the participant who is not versed in process of diagnostic protocols– but rather, is usually the subject of them. The potential for erroneous diagnosis (errors of perceptions, procedure and protocols) became the focus of concern and discussion by many of the participants.