RUTH K. BURKE
  • Work
    • Susurrus
    • In Heaven Love Comes First
    • Ruminant >
      • Keeping Everyone Comfortable, 2017
      • Forever Heifer, 2017
      • Trough, 2016
      • Closer to Closure, 2017
      • We are Flesh, Fat, and Blood, 2016
      • Bargaining Tool (2,000 lbs), 2016
    • Moving Image & Site-Specific >
      • Gift Economy, 2019
      • The Process of Coming and Going in this World, 2018
      • The Social Life of Meat, 2018
      • Quiet, 2018
      • Itchy in the Grass, 2018
      • Boustrophedon, 2017
      • Connected Kingdoms, 2017
      • Emblem of Rural Quiet, 2017
      • Aleph, 2017
      • Window Into, 2017
      • Countering the Bull, 2016
      • Gopi, 2015
    • Horses >
      • Polyrhythms (Fuerst Rendition), 2020
      • Epona, 2018
      • Burgazada Ride, 2016
      • Herd II, 2016
      • Herd, 2015
    • R&D
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Picture
Photo by Emily Schiffer 
Trough, 2016
Performance


This performance reverses the typical power structures engaged in by humans and cows. Rather than the human consuming from the body of the cow, my bovine collaborator consumes from an appendage on my body. I am on my knees in a blue costume that features a large cone around my most vulnerable corporeal parts, the neck and the head. The dark blue color is a play on cow’s dichromatic vision and the cone is filled with treats. The relationship between birth, death, and consumption is one perpetually unfinished. 

Trough documentation from Ruth K. Burke on Vimeo.

Video shot by Nicholas Williams
Photos by Emily Schiffer

Trough documentation from Ruth K. Burke on Vimeo.

Trough Documentation Video from Ruth K. Burke on Vimeo.

Videos shot by Alisa Yang
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  • Work
    • Susurrus
    • In Heaven Love Comes First
    • Ruminant >
      • Keeping Everyone Comfortable, 2017
      • Forever Heifer, 2017
      • Trough, 2016
      • Closer to Closure, 2017
      • We are Flesh, Fat, and Blood, 2016
      • Bargaining Tool (2,000 lbs), 2016
    • Moving Image & Site-Specific >
      • Gift Economy, 2019
      • The Process of Coming and Going in this World, 2018
      • The Social Life of Meat, 2018
      • Quiet, 2018
      • Itchy in the Grass, 2018
      • Boustrophedon, 2017
      • Connected Kingdoms, 2017
      • Emblem of Rural Quiet, 2017
      • Aleph, 2017
      • Window Into, 2017
      • Countering the Bull, 2016
      • Gopi, 2015
    • Horses >
      • Polyrhythms (Fuerst Rendition), 2020
      • Epona, 2018
      • Burgazada Ride, 2016
      • Herd II, 2016
      • Herd, 2015
    • R&D
  • statement
  • about/cv
  • Contact
  • Black Lives Matter