The Transmogrification of the Diva

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reception :
Friday August 19, 2005, 7-11 p.m.

venue :
Ybor Studios
1517 E. 5th Avenue, Ybor
(with convenient parking in the 15th Street parking garage directly across the street)

venue url :
yborstudios.com

more information :
tampabay-online.org/avaacc/

Realised by: Kurt Piazza, John Russell, and Elena Vee

Continuing the narrative of The Panopticon of the Psychological Mind, the Diva (played by Elena Vee), resolves her dilemma of rendering the perfect mathematical diagram of a tree by anathematizing her hubris, which caused her entrapment within the cold-storage facility. She attempts to escape the imprisonment of the panopticon by constructing the perfect tree, which the Diva asembles from freshly cut timbers. Whilst she is engaged in erecting this simulacrum, she is visited by the seraph of imprudence, disguised in the visage of a parakeet. He promises the Diva liberation from the panopticon by transforming her into his likeness and tempting her with an image of the outside world, projected onto a 1970's era video monitor.

This installation is taking place during the reception for "5 on 5"

Avaacc***

Piazza, Kurt ***

Russell, John F. ***

Vee, Elena **

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