Totem, Performance
August 24, 2025
For Hernan Rivera Luque’s Totem sculpture
Synthesizers, Robotic Percussion, Speaker, Microphones, Mic Stands
If a chair is the body, what is a table upside down pinned to the ceiling with books in between? A totem, not for gods, not for history, but for the absurd fact of being here at all. Frozen in negotiation between mass and meaning, between the will to organize and the inevitability of entropy: what becomes of the body? Only the echo of former hierarchies stacked, silenced, and left to stand. Fragmented and re-assembled for a rite long forgotten, you've been here before. Does an altar abandoned still hold lost prayers?
Totem, 2025
Hernan Rivera Lque
Piano, pedestal, cabinet, appliance, table, books, glassware, and miscellaneous found objects
150 × 56 x 51 inches
Part of the exhibit CHANGED FOREVER, at Ballery Billman / Kaleidoscope, August 1-24, 2025