Skin
This work explores several concepts:
- How the media sees and presents us and asks whether it mirrors our image of ourselves
- How we present images of who we are
- Whether we are products of our environment or whether our environment is a product of us
- Whether the constant barrage of conflicting messages, opinions and desires affect and shape who we are
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Method ::
Cover a male and a female body with messages cut from various gender-specific media, building up layers like onion skin to represent the daily barrage of mixed messages continuously and subliminally impressing themselves on us. Manequins are displayed with headphones and chained to a TV stack so that like Winston (in Orwell's 1984) they are forced to watch/listen to the media. The TV's alternate between continuous channel flicking and static. A selection of tabloid media & magazines are left on top of the TV's.
Materials used ::
- Male manequin [Sony] & female manequin [Lily]
- Various magazines specifically targeted at men and women
- Headphones and chains
- TV's and VCR
Performed:
- January 2000: Summer Dreaming Festival, Cowra
- April 2000: Loveseat in the Wonderful World of Warhol
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