La Pocha Nostra Performs at MOCCA: A Radical Critique of Colonial Relations
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Abstract
Divino Corpo is the latest piece by the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra, performed in 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA). The performance is configured as a living diorama with the audience standing in the middle of the gallery looking out at scenes located on all four sides of the room. At one end, there is a body covered by a Canadian flag. At another, there is a man wearing nothing but a camouflage headband and a diaper made of gauze. The middle of the diaper is painted red, as are his limbs. Beside him stands a glamorous woman with platinum blond hair in a tight black dress. Across from them, a man in a drag and wearing a tribal headdress, sits on a chair. A naked woman pulls a rope to which he is attached. A woman in a silver cardboard corset inhabits the final side of the stage. The area around her stomach is translucent, and inside we see red. Her “set,” if you will, is a tall wooden post and a small stand bearing a cross. The audience stands squished together in the middle of the room. We manoeuvre around each other to watch the performances. Sadly, this hinders our ability to see, but it also heightens our awareness of each other and of our own bodies. We, too, are part of this performance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.081 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".