Thursday, September 20, 2007

THE BODY



THE BODY-15:00-STEREO-VIDEO-1990 BY JORDAN BIREN

The Body reduces the body to a site of comedic gestures.
Here, performance creates only a tangential sense to the
flatly titled subject. A string of gestures threaded together
in the edit resist straightforward documentation.
The proposition of narrative pushes through but lodges
in the underlying context satirizing its place of origin, the body.JB