i was struck first by this image, which seems perhaps not so interesting, but i suppose it’s also that fuzzy softness of images from the 70s, combined with the complete internalisation of the artist–it’s an interesting way of questioning oneself, by making videos of yourself, filming and working entirely alone in the studio. [read more about her work here] to do in the way that she did was rare back then and perhaps even now; there is an element of control, self-direction and egocentrism that women don’t take very much of, and i think for me it runs very parallel to this question of how you would address your identity in general, also a race/ethnicity question. i would imagine that it occurs more often as a race/identity confrontation than a gender one, but who knows…

it’s written of her that she viewed life as “a conscious experience of time, which boils down in an accumulation of images that detain time and poetically restore in the lapse of time.” simone, i don’t know how you will go about exploring movements and such, but i think this issue of time is the most interesting one in the context of our relativity discussion… it’s still broad, i know, but how can we play with this idea of the lost time in our bodies? or the time that is stored there, from the perspective of the huaren? how is that manifested in dujourie’s work, about female identity, but created as a choreographed private performance and described as a sculptural piece on video? “Time is being lived (in) in these videos – they reflect a conscious undergoing in the spectator of slow actions without finality. Life as a continuous stream of images is set back here in mostly sensual movements at right angles to utilitarian activities.” i haven’t seen her work actually, but the images that come to mind from these words sound intriguing…