(b. Texas, USA).
Miguel Ventura is best known for his video works based on language. For Exercises or Return of the Body, Language I and Language IV, the artist created instructional videos demonstrating a futuristic, post-revolutionary etiquette guide. In Impakt ’99, Miguel Ventura installed The New Fuck Me Little Daddy House, intended as an environment for the dissemination of new systems of linguistics. "I felt there were secret languages of a group of people or a nation to which I did not belong. So I created my own nation in my work, where I place my own frontiers and call up voices from the past, the present and the future" (Miguel Ventura, text "Lamentations, Praises, Hymns". 1992) The New Interterritorial Language Committee’s teaching methods were also demonstrated, with the Committee being a caricature on any organization that requires subordination to its mandates. The NILC’s leading figure is a drag persona whose h
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