Marcus Civin will perform "Bounty" at LA><ART, June 27, 2009, at 7:30PM. Borrowing its structure from silent film, this text-and-prop-driven performance is informed by research into labor relations, the lives of soldiers, and resource allocation.

Set: A small steel room with exposed wood supports.

Intertitle 1: On some skin, undershirts burnt in.

Action 1: I remove a bottle of water from a safe.

Intertitle 2: We used to host herders. There’s a fence now. The herds would ruin the crop. We can no longer afford to be generous.

Action 2: On stilts, I pour some water to boil.

Action 3: I cut open a rotting orange with a crumbling plaster ax.

Intertitle 3: They can’t figure out how to get a bottle of water? Screw ‘em. We fight. We fight for what we need.

Action 4: I bait a rat cage with a piece of orange.

Intertitle 4: Today, I want to tell all. I suck myself into the microphone, then up the flagpole, my stomach spits worms. Saluted, I pull to the right position.

Action 5: I pour some drops of boiling water down a drainpipe.

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Performance Sketch for The Bomb, Silent Film Intertitle, gelatin silver print on steel on easel, 2’x5’, 2009, documentation by April Friges

Performance Sketch for The Bomb, Safe, sculp metal on wood in safe, 12”x18”, 2009, documentation by April Friges

Performance Sketch for The Bomb, Marcus Civin with objects, 2009, documentation by April Friges

Marcus Civin