Myla DalBesio - Young Money [update]
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Model-turned multi-disciplinary artist Myla DalBesio [..] turned heads
when she blurred the lines between performance art and pornography
with her controversial Young Money piece at Ramis Barquet Gallery last
summer. As part of the Glutton for Punishment show, a topless DalBesio
gyrated seductively on the floor, rolling around in dollar bills to
the tune of Lil’ Wayne’s Young Money, as an LED screen flashed
corresponding cash messages. Willing audience members were treated to
a lapdance by the artist, who poured champagne on herself and her
participants’ crotches. DalBesio said this act reversed the role of
subject-and-object, transforming the dancer into a figure of power.
For her finale, the artist incorporated Evangelical Christianity's
“faith healing”, thumbing the sign of the cross on participants’
foreheads. She says Young Money “confronts questions of our own
morality and desires, and what drives us to act on them. I’m often
aiming to expose people to parts of themselves that they may never
have acknowledged before.”
Text: http://www.mutualart.com/OpenArticle/Performance-Art-Pushes-the-Envelope---bu...
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