The Cast and crew

http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/reviews/2007/feb/spacegallery/spacegallery.html

The most engaging "happening" at the show was a performance piece called Parts is Parts by Kim Harmon (myspace.com/therealkimharmon), who is currently pursuing her second master's degree at New College of California's Experimental Performance Institute. She sat in an armchair, naked except for black duct tape over her erogenous zones, hands and feet bound in studded leather cuffs and chains. Her body was delineated into cuts of meat by permanent marker, like an animal in a slaughterhouse. As she read a book about preparing pig meat, a man shaved her legs and Shanti Sankar played a song she had composed called Natural World on guitar. The performance was wonderfully strange, and I was compelled to talk with Kim Harmon. I inquired about her process in creating this piece, and she remarked that her inspiration was Space Gallery's theme; she was encouraged by the call for art on their website.

Harmon's narrative is an integration of feminism, animal rights, and anti-corporate sentiment. Addressing contemporary understandings about body, identity, and fragmentation, Harmon made a statement about the commodification, dehumanization, and fragmentation of women and animals. She confided that as a vegetarian, she used the book The Sexual Politics of Meat as her point of departure.