mercredi 3 avril 2013

Video Art

For the class of Thursday, March 14th.

During this class, we saw Lisa Steele's video art "Birthday suit with scars and defects" recorded on her 27th birthday, and it inspired me to make my own video art. It's a little out there, so either bare with me or skip to the next post.

"All You Can Eat Porn: My Apple", Claire Gallant (2013)



First, I prepare an apple: 
I wash it, remove its sale sticker, and peel the fruit.
Peeling apples is a very tender act to me, 
which I associate strongly with my mother, 
my aunts, and my grandmothers, and their gendered rituals. 
I love the sound of apples being peeled. 
Eventually, the gesture is meant to feed loved ones, and maybe to treat them. 
However, the action is uneasy to my hands since it is alien to my daily life as a 23 year old;
I've never found it easy.

Second, I strip naked to devour the apple as quickly as possible. 
I gag rushing through it, and most of it is wasted.
Planning and then making this second half of the video, 
I was referring to mainstream internet pornography, 
especially ones featuring women performing fellatio on men.
Today, the internet facilitates and increases the distribution and consumption of pornography, and brings along questions that are difficultly muffled in my conscience, such as:
What is being portrayed in the most popular videos?
What kind of sexuality does it exemplify for the genders?
Why is it being consumed so vastly and what are its effects?

This video performance, although a display of negative emotions from me 
(I wear them on my sleeve, or rather, on my face)
is meant as a comment to be heard and interpreted by viewers as they wish

Thanks for your attention.

Globe and Mail article.

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