Tom Isaacs, Night Soil, 2022. Video documentation by Motel Picture Company.
1-9: Stills from video documentation of live performance.
10: Installation view, ‘Sacrificial Bodies’, SCA Project Space, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW.
For Night Soil (2022) I was buried alive inside a purpose-built wooden bed. Video documentation of this performance was exhibited alongside the soil-filled bed as part of my PhD examination exhibition, ‘Sacrificial Bodies’.
This work is discussed in more detail in my thesis which is available online through the University of Sydney website: ‘Sacrificial Bodies: Body Art, Ritual and the Problem of Alienation’.
An early version of this work was performed in 2016 as part of the base-metal event ‘Intercessions Open’ at Scratch Art Space.
Tom Isaacs 