The Dig Cunt, Coney Island, May 7-13, 2007

Me and Florian Reither, The Dig Cunt, 2007, Photo by Jason Covert

About two weeks ago I received an email blast from CreativeTime. I'm a fan of CreativeTime, sometimes I don't understand their choice of projects but I respect their mission (they just celebrated 33 years). This specific email got my attention unlike any other. "Gelitin in Coney Island, The Dig Cunt." The Dig Cunt? What!?!

"Called by the quest to hole, gelitin will set out to dig on coney island beach. mornings we will take the train to coney island equipped with hands, shovels and a mind settled like grains of sand. we will dig for seven hours and in the evening close the hole and return back to manhattan. the next day we will take the train again to coney island and dig a hole and then close it again. the next day we will take the train again to coney island and dig a hole and then close it again." and so on...

Wolfgang Gantner, The Dig Cunt, 2007

THIS IS WHAT GOT MY FULL ATTENTION:
"Repeated over seven days, Gelitin describe the proposed durational work as a celebration of the millennium of the female and the anti-phallus, in effect the artistic reversal of the erect public monument. Part Dada, part Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (1896), the absurdly poetic act of ritualized displacement, absence and renewal."