photo: Peter Karuna

Andrew McPhail - All My Little Failures

 

Andrew McPhail – plays on semantics and health branding, and comments on the continued threat that AIDS poses globally. For McPhail, “band aid covered objects bring up many issues, health, hurt, and the obsessive hypochondria that I get—living with HIV—around blood-work time. Making the white-skin-like surface of the band-aid forms also evokes issues of contact, about touch and protection. Who and what is safe, and how long have we got?” McPhail brought his band-aid veil performance to the hospital and the university in Cienfuegos. He felt encouraged by the “enthusiastic audience response, and the degree to which people were open to involving themselves in my actions. Seeing other people perform the piece provides valuable insight into its possible nuances.”

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Funded in part by OAC (Visual Arts Projects, International Touring and Exhibition Assistance Grants), Canada Council (Visiting Foreign Artists and Visual Arts Travel Grants)

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