ehsan gill

for this performance i recreated Skip Arnolds's On Display (1995)

the surface concentration on sexism is an excuse to dismiss the art. It’s ok for gays, lesbians and women to display their bodies but not straight men. Straight men are accused of egocentrism, exhibitionism and exploitation…’ (Warr, 2006: 85). Quoted in reference to his body based performances, Skip Arnold’s work has asked complex questions of the boundaries between the artists body as agent and its function as site (Warr, 2006). This performance was an interpretation of his seminal 1993 piece On Display and asks a simple question; Given the same conditions would my ethnically marked body be accused of the same egocentrism, exhibitionism and exploitation ?

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