Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 7PM
7 Little Pigs is a live-streamed performance by Georgica Pettus. Developed for A.I.R. Gallery during the COVID-19 quarantine, 7 Little Pigs responds to the paranoia of increased self-scrutiny concurrent with the existential uncertainty of isolation.
The performance draws its title from a painting by Hieronymus Bosch and a 1942 detective novel by Agatha Christie, in which each of the seven central characters recount the same sequence of events from their differing perspectives. Following this format, the characters in 7 Little Pigs will be called to trial via Zoom.
The performance—written, coordinated, and played by Pettus—will be 30 minutes long. The live-stream link will be published via A.I.R. Gallery’s website and social media platforms on the day of the event.
If you were not able to join, view documentation of the performance here:
Georgica Pettus makes time-based media and lives in New York. She is interested in the sacred and the ceremonial as a means by which she can preserve the temporal. Her work is essentially formless, with story-telling at its core. Stories endure; what is not material can not decompose. Neither additive nor subtractive, her process is adaptive. Her aim is to make nothing about something.
Hieronymus Bosch, The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, ca. 1500. Oil on wood. 47 x 59 inches.