2001
Tiffany Trenda's first performance involved a wearable and utilized found footage of the female body captured using a micro-lens. The footage was heavily processed in post-production, resulting in an abstract and unrecognizable form. The performance incorporated these video clips displayed on a television monitor, with sound played through wearable speakers.
Trenda's performance aimed to critique the cultural obsession with video and photography manipulation that emphasizes post-production trends over explorative documentation of the human image. The performance highlighted the possibility that the manipulation and idealization of the human form may lead to its annihilation.
“Annihilation of Nexus” was performed at Art Center College of Design, Undergraduate Gallery, Pasadena, California.