A Prototype of Desiring Being
Performance Video, 00:02:27
This project explores how technical image is encoded with desires of consumer society. The narrative figure in the video elaborates this idea by moving, dancing, and posing in front of a camera. This figure in costume and mask embodies confusions, fears, and desires in response to the projection of social expectation onto itself. The skin-toned costume suggests an empty surface for self-representation, which is a process of externalizing an impression that others might have of oneself.
Performance Photos
Screening/Talk/Citation
Hot STEAM II: A Science/Video/Art Film Screening, MIT Museum, 2019.
Boston University: Women & Masks: An Arts-Research Project, 2021.
Women and Masks: Reflections on a Conference, a Project, and a Field by Felice Amato, 2024.