'Resist, She Said' by Nancy Mauro-Flude
medium: Installation:
game-mod, digital c-print series, 1x digital print on canvas,
single channel video - audio/colour/15min.
A requiem to the *The Punk Rock Inn* an autonomous cultural centre in Amsterdam, evicted 2005.
_Resist, she said_ is an account of someone performing with ready made pieces of consumer wreckage and playing with them on the streets in a creative mêlée.
The video is a recording of a live performance of DaDaist tactics, repetition, level design and use of location as narrative, there is no dialogue and no significant character development - except determination to resist.
The protest banner is a play on Pac-man in a top hat, munching up houses and shitting out money, a symbol for the slow decline of the squatting movement in Amsterdam. A backdrop for this object theatre show, strategically drawing upon video-Game culture's use of props:
Throwing Dead Red Roses to riot police- a dramatic sign for an end,
Bat and twirl of the crow bar- a 3D video game classic melee weapon,
Police capturing the anarchist flag - a common gameplay mode found in many first-person shooters such as Quake, Urban Terror, Unreal Tournament, Tribes, the Halo series.
_Resist, she said_ is a study of the craft, dramatic form and conventions applied in activist performance.
