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Pictures in an Exhibition

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2013-05-01T13:37:48Z

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Birke, Lisa

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University of Waterloo

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Can the female feel at home in nature, myth and on screen, realms where she is so often laid to rest? "Pictures in an Exhibition" is a pastiche that exposes popular culture and art historical tropes in which ambiguous signifiers have become lost in a chain of referents. An installation of videos documents durational performances—filmed, edited and performed by the artist unaccompanied—that are humorous, satirical, aesthetic, historical, philosophical and psychological. Making simultaneous reference to art history, mass media, literature and mythology, "Pictures in an Exhibition" exposes the conflicted condition of a postfeminist 'self' striving to arrive at an exhibition of subjectivity.

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contemporary art, video, performance art, new media, feminism, art history, mythology

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http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7502

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Fine Arts