Bert Rodriguez, Where You End and I Begin (2008)
Bert Rodriguez created a performance-based installation project consisting of a massage station located in a centralized, highly trafficked area of the fair. At certain times for the duration of the fair, the artist was available to perform a ten minute foot massage for any weary visitors walking through.
Bert Rodriguez (b.1975) is an American artist based in Miami.
Rodriguez graduated from New World School of the Arts BFA program in 1998. He works in a variety of media including: film, video, photography, sculpture, installation and sound. Recent projects include A Wall I Built With My Father and A Meal I Made With My Mother, two site-specific installations for Le Plateau, FRAC Ile de France Paris (2008); In the Beginning… for the Whitney Biennial New York (2008), and Advertising Works!, Fredric Snitzer Gallery Miami (2007). Current projects include installing an oven in his apartment and training his dog, Wilson to be a gentleman.
