Havana intoxication
2017

For this performance I make a supersize Mojito to submerge myself in. I drink the cocktail from within the tank, while concurrently absorbing its rum and shivering from its ice. The audience is invited to dip their cups into the large Mojito, indulging with me. Through shared intoxication we create a metaphor for the U.S.’s actions in Cuba.

Press release:

"On Monday, August 7th, Lara Salmon will present Havana Intoxication, a durational performance featuring a forty gallon Mojito made with Havana Club Rum sourced via a recent direct flight from Havana to LAX, and mint taken from MOCA Los Angeles. Inspired by an illegal trip to the Caribbean socialist state in 2014, Salmon questions her role as an American traveling abroad and the history of Cuban-American cultural exchange throughout evolving international relations."

Havana intoxication occured at Elevator Mondays in Los Angeles, California.

Photos from Eric Minh Swenson, Ali Kheradyar and MP Knowlton.



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