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Matt Taber + Scott Nadeau’s pastiche of the American West in NAKED EARTH at LA’s Elevator Mondays

, 12 July 2017
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Matt Taber and Scott Nadeau are presenting NAKED EARTH at Los Angeles’ Elevator Mondays, opening July 3 and running to July 31.

Matt Taber and Scott Nadeau ‘NAKED EARTH’ (2017) Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles.

The installation and performance is part of My Name is Everybody, which is an ongoing series of performances culminating with a video to be produced by the duo later this year. During the opening night, Nadeau performed “a sacred bond between myself and matter,” while lifting weights within a prison cell he designed, while Taber reads The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius.  

Taber and Nadeau explore “experience of time and space [and the way it is] aestheticized within genre types of the imagination” against the backdrop of the pastiche American West and technological systems they are contained within.**

Matt Taber and Scott Nadeau’s NAKED EARTH performance and exhibition is on at Los Angeles’ Elevator Mondays, running July 3 to 31, 2017.

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