I Let My Nightmares Go
15-minute liver performance with single-channel video projection
description from Shotgun Review:
http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/queens_nails_annex/jacob_ciocci.html
"The performance was, to quote Ciocci, "exercise and exorcism." I Let My Nightmares Go encapsulated this with a crucial performative element involving Jacob dancing in front of a projection of Jacob dancing in front of a compilation of YouTube clips. Beforehand, Jacob introduced this background montage of pop religiosity (the band Paramore), recession prophets (Young Jeezy and Kanye West's Put On), media anxiety (preteen film reviewer Sexman), and racial catharsis (Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson performing "What's Up With You?"). It sampled from cultural references with genuine appreciation for the human context that inspired them, remixing images and sound until they became agents for the characters involved, including Ciocci himself. Watching someone strip the limitations off kitsch by empathy alone was liberating. It hurt to watch him up there dancing awkwardly, but he seemed to say, the exposé is the exorcism."
