Lilith- Undead in the Night, part 2

Lilith Performance Studio

Jillian Mcdonald (Ca) Undead in the Night
Working period: 5th-31st of May 2009
Performance: 28, 29 &30 May between 9pm -3pm
Participants: 70 actors, 1 flute player, 1 opera singer, 2 violin players, 2 horse-rider, 2 horses, 1 child, 4 minivan drivers, 6 guides and 1 dog.

Do you dare to enter the forest for a walk in the dark? Be very very quiet, you are not alone!

Out in the forest in the middle of the night the performance Undead in the Night came alive with 72 actors, 2 horses, 2 violin players, an opera singer, a boat and liters of blood. The observer becomes a visitor in a living horror movie. Starting at twilight a bus transfers the audience 8 people at a time to an undisclosed forest location. Following a path in the dark various scenes appeared along a 3 km long horror track. The artist placed two undead creatures (hideous Zombies and stunning Vampires) in the same scenes with their victims, violating the codes and boundaries of the horror genre, and created an impossible scenario.




Jillian is interested in Zombies and Vampires as radically different yet universally recognizable archetypes of horror film monsters that rarely if ever appear together. They share the evil power to turn victims into monsters, and caught in the unknowable position between "alive" and "dead" they have the power to fascinate and terrorize. Jillian is a Canadian artist with roots in Winnipeg and Newfoundland. She lives and works in New York. Her work in video, web art, and public intervention is often performative and relational. In her recent videos, she is interested in the American cult of celebrity, the fantasy that buoys extreme fandom, and the mechanisms of fear as entertainment at work in horror films. Her work examines the ways film genres affect their audiences, and the fan sub-cultures that fuel them. The presence of her image in this work serves not as a self-portrait, but as a projection of universal emotions such as desire or fear. Screen Kiss (2005) features romantic scenes from Hollywood films starring popular actors into which she inserts her image and manipulates the existing narrative in a soft critique of celebrity obsession.

Read more: http://www.lilithperformancestudio.com/jillian.html
http://www.jillianmcdonald.net/

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• Undead in The Nigh
• Lilith Performance Studio
• Jillian Mcdonald
• Vampires
• Zombies
• Vampyrer

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