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Caitlin Berrigan & Anya Liftig often use food in their work as a driving force of desire and social allegory. In this collaborative intervention, they will explore the obsessions, myths and terrors of motherhood through an act of  cannibalism. Amidst unsuspecting midday lunchers and farmers market shoppers, the two young & upright mommies will coddle, pet, kiss, lick and ultimately devour life-sized babies cast in fudge and cream.

Image photographer: Bami Adedoyin

*Three weekend interventions in New York City*

SkowheganPERFORMS | Socrates Sculpture Park
Sunday 25 September | 12 -3pm

http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/visit

Art in Odd Places Festival | 14th Street
Saturday 1 October | 11:30am – 2pm
Saturday 8 October | 11:30am – 2pm

http://www.artinoddplaces.org/artist.php?subj=60

Intervention begins on the Highline and continues along 14th Street into Union Square

10 – 12 June 2011 | 10am – 6pm | Governors Island NYC | Figment Festival

Caitlin Berrigan will present a new work for Governors Island. For the duration of the Figment Festival, she will enact a pathetic political gesture—circling around the perimeter of the island, endlessly declaring ‘Victory’ in an evaporating medium.

Victory Gardening was commissioned by Kleio Projects for The Purposeful Garden including work by artists Fabian Grateroles, Anne Percoco, Junko Sugimoto, and Mosstika.

For details on the festival and how to get to the island, please visit http://newyork.figmentproject.org. *Weather permitting*

Victory Gardening was produced during an invitational residency at The Wassaic Project, and made possible with the gracious assistance of Francis Rabkin, Janine Iversen, Storm Garner, Gina Siepel and Meredith Jenks.