The Amputation of Statues
“Eighty Left Feet: Revolutionary Footnotes” was written by Mary Walling Blackburn as invited writer for artist, Judd Morrissey’s “The Last Performance.” In his words: “The Last Performance is a constraint-based collaborative writing, archiving and text-visualization project responding to the theme of lastness in relation to architectural forms, acts of building, a final performance, and the interruption (that becomes the promise) of community.” It is in collaboration with Goat Island Performance Group and “is a project of the Andy Warhol Foundation / Creative Capital Arts’ Writers Grant Program.”
Here is a file for one of the documents if you would simply like to read one of the texts without searching for it: eighty left feet revised 2008
[The above photograph features a detail of a cupboard located in Room 10 of the Palacio Real in Sant Fe, New Mexico. Some historians have claimed- but not documented- that in 1609 Don Juan Onate ordered the construction of the Governor's palace to be built on the foundation of 'an old indian house.' What has been documented is Onate's amputation of eighty left feet of villagers in Acoma , New Mexico. Here, perhaps metaphorically, a house is swapped for a body.
This image is from the Library of Congress. It was taken in 1934 by M. James Slack.]
