By: Patrick Clancy
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The diverse group of performance video artworks presented in InsideOut collectively inscribes varying intensities of psychological and provocative effects within and on individual physical bodies as sites of sensual and material expression. Individual performers/subjects characterized by multiplicities of identities morph and transform their subjectivities and event-spaces through disruptive re-contextualizing effects. Hallucinatory layered and aggregate identities become sites of narrativity and modulating displacement that exceed their boundaries and turn our expectations upside down and inside out. Several works presented appear to be kinds of metaperformance as a generative process that evokes unexpected and unrestrained modes of performance as opposed to habitual and conformist actions and reactions to diverse social circumstances and environmental contexts. These works are more like the Happenings of the mid-twentieth century wher