Skinesthesia
Contributors:
Heidi Jane Rahlmann, Hannah Sim, Osseus Labyrint, Pauline Oliveros, Marilyn S. Zalkan
Film duration:
18
Year:
1994
Countries:
United States of America
Original format:
Betacam SP
Colour:
Colour
This videotape scrambles the cultural codes of female movement by juxtaposing images from the work of performance artist Hannah Sim with images of Sim working as a nude dancer in a peep show. ‘skin•es•the•si•a’ is not: an anti-porn diatribe; a manifesto in support of the sex trades; or a “Two Lives of Mistress X” story. It explores the rapport between one woman's body and two performance environments. How are women perceived and typed through our own physical movements? What might a response of power to these codes and norms look like? What do we discover by embracing our otherness, by transforming it into a means of confronting the world?
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