Rita McKeough
Toronto, Ontario
Searching for oil in a downtown parking lot, performance artist Rita McKeough will erect small oil
rigs on every oil leak and oil stain scattered throughout the parking lot.
She will spend the twelve hours of Nuit Blanche using her skills as a car driver to generate electricity
to operate her miniaturized oil pumps. She will drive a hand-cranked generator and her gestures will
integrate with the movement of the oil pumps. As the night progresses McKeough will operate all of the
pumps and frantically attempt to stop the oil from leaking away. The audience may offer to assist McKeough
with her various activities or they may simply watch her efforts.
A sound track will permeate the humorous and chaotic environment of the parking lot where the performance
is taking place and will drive the intensity of McKeough’s performance, perhaps bringing to light
contradictions and tensions in a world that reveals a drift away from reason.
Rita McKeough, Slipping By, 2005, Installation performance
photography: Peter Steiner
Alternator, 2008
Interactive installation (projection)
[ selected photographs ]
[ video ]
B10 St. Lawrence Parking garage, Yonge Street and The Esplanade
Assisted by the Alberta College of Art + Design
Thank you to:
Wayne Baerwaldt, Robyn Moody, Nuit Blanche Team, ACAD PAC
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