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Work Type:video, performance documentation
Date of work:1995
Materials:medium: video documentation of performance

Measurements:duration: 6 min

15 sec

Style Period:contemporary art
Technique:performance, video
Description:
Shot in a red bleached-out video effect, a woman stands in front of a Venetian blind, with numerous handheld microphones taped around her waist in the typical form of a mini-skirt. The woman gyrates and moves in ever increasing urgency, as the soundtrack plays back the noise of the all the microphones tapping and banging into each other. She slowly comes to a rest, then takes off the “skirt” and walks off camera.
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