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2000-2002
Like Looking Away includes interviews with ten young women, ages 18-34. Three questions about shopping were asked of each interviewee, with responses ranging from euphoria to anguish, and including discussion about bodies, money, space, femininity, class, guilt, paranoia, and pleasure.
Falling at the start of the interviews, the September 11th 2001 attack on the World Trade Center prompted the inclusion of a fourth question. The transcribed responses were formed into short soliloquies, editing out all questions and references to shopping. For the project, one actress who approximates the qualities of the original voices of the women - their regional accents, the timbre of their voices, the projection of their personalities and ages - performs the recorded soliloquies. However, the underlying quality of the actress's voice persists.
The installation includes a grid of larger than life-size photographic portraits of the interviewed women, made while the women were listening to recorded playbacks of their own interviews. Accompanying the audio is a projected video loop of a 2002 blockbuster Hollywood action-adventure movie in which all images except the most violent have been edited out. These explosive images are shown in slow and stop-action motion and represent a form of entertainment statistically favored by young men.
(30 photographs; each 16"x24"; 1 photograph 31"x42"; video & audio loop, 25 min.; voiceover: Rachel Astarte-Piccione)
Selected transcriptions can be found in inadequate...Like...Power
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At left is an excerpt of the video element of the project.
Click here for Transcript Excerpt"She-Fox," by Mignon Nixon, Women Artists at the Millenium (MIT Press, 2006).
"Hal Foster interviews Silvia Kolbowski," inadequate...Like...Power, (Secession, Vienna, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne, 2004) English and German.
"Oral Histories: Silvia Kolbowski and the Dynamics of Transference," by Mignon Nixon, inadequate...Like...Power, (Secession, Vienna, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne) English and German.
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