Studio

Pre-Crit

Tomorrow I have my last crit of the semester (already!).

Showing a video installation.  Documentation to come.

So I’m presenting a “collection of parts” that are iconic beacons of sexuality, or gender identity: long legs in high heels, a pink floor length gown and long gloves, top hats with spinning ties, and lips.  In all cases I have eliminated all the individual human parts and left the iconic fetishized parts.  And yet.  Yet, it may not be enough?  Are we so desensitized as a culture that people can watch disembodied legs dance on their own accord, think it’s fun and sexy and nothing else…..?  Are we so used to seeing women as a collection of parts that this amputation is not enough?