Ariela Plotkin | The Rear
Curator: Joshua Simon | Artistic Director: Dalia Levin
Sep. 23, 2007 - Dec. 15, 2007
Bug 2Small, 2007, video, 3.50 minutes
The video is structured like a music video clip to a song composed and performed by the artist herself, under the stage name Miss PLO. Appearing in the video clip are Plotkin’s friends and relatives, following a dance routine she composed: each of them dances alone in front of a blue-screen, performing movements they were directed to mimic. Watching the video it becomes evident that as they all dance the same dance, move their lips to the words of the same song, they are slowly transforming almost into clones or variations of one another – while echoing the absent figure of the artist-star, seen only in the prologue to the video.
