Tim Barrus Performs: Human Trafficking July 7, 2009

Human Trafficking is a one-man "performance" play by Tim Barrus that incorporates the use of video that speaks visually to the idea of identity. Performance takes place "Riding the Lion," (476 5th Avenue, NYC) and will focus on Act 2, The Year of Riding the Lion. Tim Barrus argues that human trafficking can only exist in cultures juxtaposed against the idea of slavery where slavery is a reality both overtly and subversively as cultural roles where individuals exist as workers in a system of class hierarchy. The sexual slave and the worker drone share submissive attributes that keep the dominant aristocracy intact. The term "slave" can never refer to the lower classes even when the lower classes live lives of sheer desperation and servitude. The term "human trafficking" refers to the relationships one negotiates with through a lifetime of connection and disconnection, dominance, submission, and the acceptance of one's place in this scheme of things.
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Official Website: http://human-trafficking.tumblr.com