The performance the jungle is a skyscraper by Stefanie Seibold and Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio, revolves around the costume politics of Sun Ra and the Arkestra.

the jungle is a skyscraper (crossed out) takes its title from a track on Ornette Coleman’s vinyl Science Fiction.The performance engages with the glitzy costume politics of Sun Ra on Gerrit Rietveld’s Zig-Zag Chairs, to initiate a performative discourse on othering and self-othering, systems of categorisation, form and anti-form, as well as scientific classification as othering machines-and gardens and Zoos as domesticating Western forms of display.

with special thanks to the Rietveld Academie and Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten, Amsterdam

the jungle is a skyscraper
December 10th 2009

MuHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium

the jungle is a skyscraper was performed in the context of Textiles Art and the Social Fabric an exhibition curated by Grant Watson. It was previously shown in the series If I Can’t Dance Tonight at Frascati, Amsterdam on Sept. 23rd 2009.

Textiles Art and the Social Fabric, MuHKA

website of Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio