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Linda M Ford
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1. Olympia Sex Worker at the MOMA
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Charles Bernheimer decodes the word ‘prostitution’ in this way: ‘Etymologically, prostitution means to set or place (Latin: statuere) forth, in public (pro). When Baudelaire wrote that art is prostitution, he may have had this etymology in mind, for indeed art is the making public of private fantasies, the public exposition of one’s imaginary creations.’ -- Charles Bernheimer, Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth Century France,p.1.
Linda M. Ford employs performance, video and object making in her practice to explore the histories of both the personal and the social body and the ways in which these bodies are subsumed into specific economies. These interests are located within an investigation of the nature of the contemporary art world and in the exchange values of art, labor, and bodies.
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2. Olympia: Sex Worker
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IMAGE 1
still of 4:51 minute video, 2007
Video Proposal for Olympia: Sex Worker at the MOMA is a composite video of the intervention, as it exists in digital form. The multiple moving images of me in “work clothes” document the video of me "working" in a peepshow window, as well as the viewers watching the “projected” video. I become my own voyeur and act out issues of looking, consuming, working and playing, and explore where these borders exist within art.
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3. Traffic
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4. Fille Publique
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5. Window Shopping
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IMAGE 2
Olympia: Sex Worker, 2005, still of 5:31 minute video
The video “Olympia: Sex Worker” loops, forward and in reverse, my repetitive, sped-up actions working in a peepshow window. The awkward movements highlight the repetitive nature and seemingly never-ending circularity of my “work”. Here I act as artist/author, model/maker, object/subject and above all - worker.
IMAGE 3
Traffic, 2006, still of 7:27 minute video
While working in a peepshow window, I made my "work" that of the voyeur and set up spy cameras to record the customer traffic. I then edited the footage into a 4-screen, CCTV Surveillance System format.
IMAGE 4
Fille Publique, 2002, performance still
Dressed in a business suit, the artist performed ‘striptease’ pole tricks almost directly underneath the Charles Schwab marquee that continually flashes the ‘market news‘. At the end of this lunchtime hour, she sold Polaroid’s of the performance to passersby.
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IMAGES 5 AND 6
Window Shopping. Video Still. 4:09 minutes. The sound of coins rattling together and then being inserted into what sounds like a vending machine can be heard. The window begins to open, light slowly illuminating from the bottom up, but before the viewer can see inside the shutter quickly comes down again. This teasing action repeats itself, each time revealing more of the private contents
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6. Window Shopping
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of this urban window, until the viewer is granted a peek into a red carpeted, glittering, mirrored, disco ball lit stage. This video was projected (as a guerilla installation) onto the outside of the San Francisco Ballet/War Memorial Building.
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