Video programme
dal 22/12/2002 al 23/12/2002
Segnalato da
22/12/2002
Video programme
Christine Koenig Galerie, Wien
For the season 2002 / 2003 the Californian video artist Skip Arnold has put together a nocturnal programme which passers-by can view in the window of the gallery.
NOCTURNAL VIDEO PROGRAMME IN THE GALLERY WINDOW.
Curated by SKIP ARNOLD: "stuff from LA and other places":
For the season 2002 / 2003 the Californian video artist SKIP ARNOLD has put
together a nocturnal programme which passers-by can view in the window of
the gallery. They are all silent videos and will change on a weekly basis:
until December 23rd:
part 2: three videos by MICOL HEBRON
"Pocket Pool", 3,5 minutes
"T'n'A", 10 minutes
"Pisces Climatica", 9 minutes
Pocket Pool and T 'n' A are two video performances from a series of live
and video performances conducted between 1998 and 2000. They all centered
around my attempts to explore behaviors and activities that were exclusively
male. I am interested in a proposed level of absurdity that results when a
woman engages in a typically male behaviour.
POCKET POOL as a term, is a euphemism for the act of masturbating by
fondling one's testicles and penis through the pocket of his pants.
Definitively, this would be impossible for a woman to do, as she has neither
the cue stick, nor the balls to knock around through her pocket. The video
is shot as a close-up on the crotch of my jeans, allowing for an initial
ambiguity regarding the gender of the subject.
T 'n' A refers to the visibly assessable and erotic parts of a woman: her
tits and her ass. I used this reductive definition as the launch-pad for
another investigation into male versus female activities. Shaving is one of
those activities that seems divided along gender lines. I tried to imagine
what would be a woman's psychological equivalent to shaving her face...
In PISCES CLIMATICA I sought to represent and interrogate issues of
painting, through the medium of video. There is a linear narrative to this
video, centered around the traditional, archetypical topic of the "love
story", played out in 5 parts.
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