Produced and screened in AD278 (Video I) and FR433 (French Feminist Theory). Inspired by Hélène Cixous' "Angst, a written brainstorming of an emotional narrative. In the Video, emotion is conveyed by staged, overplayed gestural motion of isolated body parts (hands, feet, torso). The foreground audio is a mixed recording of different women reading a passage constructed by phrases from Cixous' piece and personal input. The background audio is a ballet classroom: an instructor calling out typical warmup exercices to a classical piano piece.

Interpretation of this video has varied: "ode" to being hurt by love, a melodramatic nothing, abuse of the female body. My intent was to not be literal in order to be truthful Cixous' "Angst". Suffering of some sort was to be conveyed; one thing to remember is that my intent was to convey physical and emotional suffering in contrast with Cixous who described more of an intellectual suffering.

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