Bleeding to Life

Ian Deleón, Brooklyn New York (NY, USA)

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An essay-performance, this media-archaeological examination celebrates the revolutionary potential of recognizing and engaging with our collective, gaping wounds. Taking Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as a point of departure, I construct a narrative that links the production of subjectivities in “post”-colonial contexts, with the technosexual networks of resistance and coded information exchange that grew out of the government-manufactured crack epidemic in oppressed neighborhoods throughout the late 70s/early 80s and today. Indebted to the writing of Donna Haraway, Jussi Parikka, Hortense Spillers, & Kanye West. Created specifically for the Dark Diction event on January 16, 2015 at JACK in NYC, organized by Social Health Performance Club.

Tattoo work was done by Josh Kil, photos by Laura Blüer, and video by David Ian Griess, and are featured here with those collaborators’ permission.