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In this performance the
artist remained in the bathroom of a domestic venue. The bathroom door
was replaced with
a door containing
a window allowing a full view into the bathroom. The toilet was purposely
clogged with tissue and remained unflushed following the artist’s
use of it. The artist spent her time in the bathroom bathing, cleansing
and beautifying her body with perfumes and lotions. Throughout this ritual
beautification process the audience members were passing by the bathroom,
lured to the window they often stopped to view inside. Each time the
artist caught an audience member peering in at her she quickly put her
hands down
the toilet bowl and threw its contents at the window. Counteracting the
seductive with the repellent, contaminating bodily cleansing with the
active handling of bodily excrements, this performance intertwines the
everyday
abject body with the pursuit of ideal beauty. Subverting the normalized
objectification of the female body through shattering the gaze of the
viewer with an aggressive action, disrupting a passive viewing of the
female body. |
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