NIO Video: This is My Body
A 47 Minute Video+Audio Odyssey mixed live by VJ NIO and
DJ Advent

A great video and audio for home viewing, Clubs, VJ Mixing. This is a beautiful vision of dance, travel, and forgiveness.

This is My Body was first shown in Febuary 2001 at Seattle's COCA (Center on Contemporary Art) in a group show. It is the result of a concept which was germinated when I was informed by a chilango (Mexican slang for someone from Mexico City) that the Aztec Dancers who dance in the Zocalo, dance with the expectation that their dancing will cause the Cathedral to fall and the Templo Mayor to rise up again. Of course this is not the only reason people dance there, but this perception struck me strongly. The Cathedral currently sits across from the ruins of Templo Mayor, the religious and ceremonial center of Tenochtitlan. This is the site where Cortes imprisoned and later killed Montezuma, the King of the Aztec Empire in 1519 and 1521. Some of the stones from the old temple were used to construct the current Cathedral which is a larger than the one originally built in that location. Click here for more information on this video.