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Burp
Burp is a wearable sculpture and
it "looks like it sounds": an odious colloquial term for an
expulsion of partially digested food and intestinal gas. This brief
hiccup
or interruption of quotidian human experience is suspended in mid-burp,
exposing a bilious digestive system gone berserk and is spilling
out of the gut. Cheese-inspired orange oblongs, perforated with
large holes and dotted with purple growths, are simply fastened
together with cotton string to form a hanging skirt. Cascading
over this backdrop are long "intestines" in electric purple,
green and blue, and tangled garlands of smaller yellow and blue
orbs.
These fantastical abstractions of food and innards are fashioned
by hand from scraps of found or recycled fabrics, an approach that
is not only cost-effective and environmentally-friendly, but also
a form of regurgitation, metaphorically referring to digestion
itself. With humour and cacophonous colour, Burp hums
somewhere between the bulimic tendencies and garish fashion trends
of the
late 1980s, and, moving into the 1990s, the emergence of the abject
and "the body as substance" in visual art. Worn on the body, Burp is
a full-frontal
experience that cannot go unnoticed: a ridiculous prosthetic/adornment
that is brazen, silly, and delightfully vulgar.
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About Laura McIntyre and Jen Hutton
Laura McIntyre has been wandering among the beautiful mountains near
Golden, B.C.; collecting moss; silk-screening squirrels on shirts;
and daydreaming about ski ticket flipbooks and a future line of
cheese skirts. Log on to www.luvmac.com to
check out her latest clothing designs.
Jen Hutton is a interdisciplinary artist of no fixed address, but for the
moment is primarily based in Guelph, Ontario. Pfack Gallery is her ongoing
curatorial project: a mobile art gallery in a small, black, modestly
fashionable, genuine leather fanny pack.
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