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/Title of Work/ "Hopscotch"
/Medium/ Interactive Installation
/Dimensions/ variable (~12' x 12')
/Date/ August 2003 |
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HOPSCOTCH.FRISBEE.
HULA HOOP.CAMERA.VIDEO.
MONITOR.REMOTE CONTROL.
GIRLS.
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An exploration of childhood games, voyeurism, the myth of innocence, the fetishization of grown woman as girls, and the sexualization of girls as women.
Users are invited to play a game of hopscotch with one of the "Hopscotch Girls", grown women dressed in a provocative manner like young girls. This is combined with multi-channel video of young girls and women playing other childhood games such as Frisbee and Hula Hoop, recorded in a voyeuristic, depersonalized, "peeping tom" style.
Surveillance cameras located in exploitative locations in the installation record the activities on the hopscotch court, and broadcast them to a monitor for all to see.
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Installation elements... video... surveillance cameras... hopscotch court...
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| photos: by D. Jean Hester |
The Hopscotch Girls... the ultimate installation element...
The audience gets interactive and plays hopscotch with The Girls...
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| photos: D. Jean Hester and David Eadington |
Voyueristic leering tendencies activated (as predicted...)
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| photo: David Eadington |
photo: D. Jean Hester |
photo: David Eadington |
Inevitable LA Celebrity... Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers played a round of hopscotch.
Credits:
Hopscotch Girls: Tamara Booth, Elizabeth Fraines, D. Jean Hester
Special Thanks: Tamara Booth, David Eadington, Nancy Haselbacher, Elizabeth Fraines, Charlene Mortale
Exhibition History:
September 5, 2003 - Group Show - SOUNDSCAPE 2003, at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA
August 2, 2003 - Group Show - [sub]URBAN [sub]VERSION, presented by Zone 9 Art, at Little Tokyo Lofts, Los Angeles, CA
Pictures from installation @ [sub]URBAN [sub]VERSION 8/2/2003
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