Performance Installation,
detail
felt, wax, paper
rend (rěnd) v. (rent, also rended, rending)
1 : to remove from place by violence
2 : to split or tear apart or in pieces by violence
3 : to tear (the hair or clothing) as a sign of anger, grief, or despair
4 : a. to lacerate mentally or emotionally
b. to pierce with sound
c. to divide (as a nation) into contesting factions
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven;
A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
(Ecclesiastes 3:1,7 NKJV)
To participate in Rend, look through the installation’s newspapers. Tear out sections evoking in you a strong response. The artist will transfer, by typewriter, these passages onto notebook paper.