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Performance artists Kanarinka and Pirun lead the funeral procession through the streets of New York

Funerals for a Moment

mourning events of no particular significance

On May 15, an excursion led by performance artist Kanarinka commemorated the passing of seven seemingly insignificant moments throughout the lower east side of Manhattan.  The group consisted of Mourners, Ushers, Journalists, and The Orator, Pirun of iKatun.  In this piece I attempted to convey the remarkable facility of this group to juxtapose the solemn and the absurd, set against the backdrop of the active city on a sunny morning in spring.  In October of 2004, this work was included in a compilation of new media performance art works in the Boston area called "Aspect", with voice-over commentary by Natalie Loveless

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Aspect: the chronicle of new media art

Funerals for a Moment: the passing of inconsequential, boring, unremarkable, unusable, non-functional, commonplace, prosaic, routine moments

iKatun: a non-profit collective of artists and technologists

Kanarinka: new media performance artist and curator

Loveless, Natalie: installation, performance, video, drawing and sculpture

Participant, Inc.: a Brooklyn-based arts lab exploring the nature of urban public space

 

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"Funerals for a Moment"

performers: Kanarinka, Pirun

camera and editing: Michael Hall

many thanks: to Participant., Inc for sponsoring this performance, and to the many mourners who participated in these commemorations

Funerals for a Moment is copyright (c) 2004 by Kanarinka.

 

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