“Yana Wernicke’s new book Companions examines the connection between two women and the farm animals they care for after saving from death”
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Mona Hatoum, Don’t Smile, You’re on Camera!
1980
“Early on, Hatoum made works that concerned the body in relation to surveillance. In Don’t Smile, You’re on Camera! (1980), she trained a camera on an audience screening their images on a monitor. At the same time, images of body parts of different genders interrupted the live screening, making the audiences uncomfortable to the point that some people got up and walked away.”
“For this performance, people were sitting in the audience and I would scan their bodies with a close-up video camera. I was then mixing their images with naked bodies, pretending that I could see through their clothes, like an x-ray vision. They would then see themselves on the monitor. People would sometimes say: "Why are you doing this to me? Why are you invading my privacy?" It was daring. When I did it at the ICA a few people got up and left. It's very confrontational because they came to see a performance and then suddenly they are the performers.”
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1980
“Early on, Hatoum made works that concerned the body in relation to surveillance. In Don’t Smile, You’re on Camera! (1980), she trained a camera on an audience screening their images on a monitor. At the same time, images of body parts of different genders interrupted the live screening, making the audiences uncomfortable to the point that some people got up and walked away.”
“For this performance, people were sitting in the audience and I would scan their bodies with a close-up video camera. I was then mixing their images with naked bodies, pretending that I could see through their clothes, like an x-ray vision. They would then see themselves on the monitor. People would sometimes say: "Why are you doing this to me? Why are you invading my privacy?" It was daring. When I did it at the ICA a few people got up and left. It's very confrontational because they came to see a performance and then suddenly they are the performers.”
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