Monday, August 27, 2007
“Fille Publique”: Pole Dancing in the Financial District
filed under: We Make Art Not Sex by Melissa Gira
Video artist Linda M. Ford confronts the “working girl” in her site-specific projections and performances, putting peep show girls on museums and pole dancers in front of Charles Schwab:
From her statement:
Fille Publique*
Dressed in a business suit, I performed “striptease” pole tricks almost directly underneath the Charles Schwab marquee that continually flashes the “market news”. At the end of this lunchtime hour, I sold Polaroid’s of the performance to passersby.* defined by the 19th century discourse which positioned the femme, or private, family woman in opposition to the fille, any woman in the public sphere; available for sexual use (prostitute).
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