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'Keep eating actual food so you don't get saccharin shits' (2019)
First recording of performance piece, 'Keep eating actual food so you don't get saccharin shits'. Filmed on the 29/05/19.
We as human beings spend a great deal of time curating public identities for the benefit those around us, with an aim to assimilate. In the context of this piece, the gum becomes an allegory for the glossy trivialities of pop culture, which we use to mask the reality of the human condition. The bust becomes an almost deity, the perfect aspirational figure that the performer is trying desperately to emulate but is fundamentally failing. The human beneath the mask always finds a way of slipping through and the illusion is shattered.
In a literal sense, the title speaks of the laxative qualities of the sugar substitute saccharin often found in gum. However metaphorically speaking, it makes reference to the importance of self-preservation. You must consume more than surface level frivolities to mentally sustain yourself.
(Metal structure to the right a separate piece by Afonso Santos)
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