Ruperto

　　In this project, the confessional is physicalized and acted out, implicating the participants and the audience in this public performance with the possibility of identifying with this horrible betrayal. More implications arise from there. In the text, Leftwich discusses that his sin isn't the betrayal per se but the lack of self-knowledge about his own limits (i.e. he believed he was a heroic person, yet in reality he was a coward). In enacting and reading the text, the participant embodies those limits through the act of performing. The promises of acting, of empathy, transparency and the transgression of the limits of self , become the channels by which the participant re-enacts the betrayer's sin, that is, the lack of self-knowledge.

　　Acting Exercise: Adrian Leftwich's I Gave the Names, 2007

　　installation/potential performance

　　site: Campo Sant'Angelo

　　Ruperto

　　Born in Philippines

　　Currently lives and works in Los Angles, USA

Education

　　1999 University of California, Berkeley Bachelor of Arts, Berkeley, California

　　2002 Yale University Masters of Fine Arts (Sculpture) , New Haven Connecticut

Group Exhibitions

　　2005 "For Tomorrow" Lucky Tackle Gallery, Oakland, CA

　　"Julieta Aranda, Jay Chung+Q Takeki Maeda, Melik Ohanian, Jef Robakowski, Miljohn

　　Ruperto, Lawrence Weiner: Curated by Francesca Grassi of greengrassi gallery, London

　　2003 "Definitely Provisional" Whitechapel Project Space, London

　　2002 Thesis Show, Yale University New Haven, CT

　　2001 3rd Space Gallery, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines