Javier Nunez Gasco, Immolation
12-05-2005
Performance in Paradiso in relation to the exhibition resonance
Doubt about your own position as an artist in society is the central theme in the work of Javier Núñez Gasco (Spain, 1971).
In his performance Immolation he walks into a nightclub stripped to the waist. The red belt with bottles of beer that he has hanging around his waist makes him look like a political martyr just before a suicide bombing. While the beat of the music pumps and you hear the people around him laughing and talking, Gasco seems to be in a daze. He drinks one bottle after another, and ends up on a lonely path where, in the end, he finds unconsciousness. In his work, through mental and physical exhaustion he attains the 'personal paradise' that every martyr seeks.
Date: May 12
Place: Paradiso
Begins: 12:30 a.m.
Admission: 6,-
