The 3 Pigs explores issues of economic inequalities, ethnic migration and national boundaries through a blending of theater, performance art, video and installation art. This multimedia interactive performance is a dramatic parody within the realm of conceptual art, transplanting the moral from a traditional tale to the current world of politics and institutionalized ideas.
The piece parodies the classic story to link the relationship between the pigs and the wolf, the relationship between artist and gallery and the relationship between U.S.A. and Mexico. These three relationships are connected through the idea of the need for “walls” for protection from the "other". This work observes issues of definitions, borders and ways of acting. The "other" becomes the wolf, and the audience becomes “the wall.” The script illuminates fear as a major instrument for political manipulation.
As the story would unfold, the actors' wall was built to block the exit, leaving the actors and the audience members stuck in the gallery. It wasn't until someone took down the wall that everyone could exit the gallery.
The 3 pigs won the “NDLTD Innovative Award ETD” awarded by the Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations June 2008.
Later the play and thesis were published as a book in June 2009 by VDM Publishing.
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