Bite and Burn

October 5 – 14, 2006
Performance Art, Exhibition

About the Program

Jason Fitzpatrick's project Bite and Burn had three sections, each actualized separately over a period of time in different cities. The action will took place once in each region thus completing one third of the tattoo, one third of a set of mono prints, and one third of the total sculpture. The Central section occurred at Open Studio in Toronto, ON; the Pacific at grunt gallery in Vancouver, BC; and the Atlantic at STRUTS Gallery in Sackville, NB. The October 5th performance aspect of grunt's Bite and Burn was a three-hour long process, during which Fitzpatrick was tattooed while vintage metal, punk, and hardcore records played in the background. Every twenty minutes, the printmaker would produce sequential prints of the tattoo, creating chronological mono prints. For the remainder of the exhibition, the artist left the prints hanging on the walls of the gallery; he also left behind other physical elements: the records and chairs, and video footage of the performance.

Artist

Jason Fitzpatrick

Identifier

2006.1005 BIT

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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