Love, Life-Support & the Pursuit of Marriage

View the videos:
:: Wrapped in Plastic, Ode to Persephone and Snow Days, Tamales of Female Flesh

Love, Life-Support & the Pursuit of Marriage (Installation with video 2005-2006)
In “Love, Life-Support, and The Pursuit of Marriage,” I recasted myself as an Indian bride in the non-Indian tragicomic characters of Laura Palmer, Persephone, and Frida Kahlo. In the vein of other feminist and postcolonial filmmakers who represent themselves as self-fashioned fictions, this video takes myth, not reality, as its starting point. Stylistically, the intertitles of original and found text, blank and saturated images, and layers of sampled music evoke the Victorian fascination with betrayal and violence in its aestheticized, eroticized, and illusory forms. The installation consists of these components: a series of three videos (‘Wrapped in Plastic,’ ‘Ode to Persephone & Snow Days,’ and ‘Tamales of Female Flesh’) looped and playing on a monitor; a selection of video stills as mounted digital prints; and a costume, which is worn in the video, presented on a dressmakers’ form. The painted gold walls evoke the primary material that comprises dowries in Indian wedding, the material that delineates the worth of young girls as they become brides.

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Other installations:
:: Love, Life-Support & the Pursuit of Marriage
:: Export Qwality
:: Family Planning
:: Paradise Lost
:: Natural Light
:: Basilica
:: Garden of Export Delights