Hysterics (from the 'Sub-lingual' series, featuring Tracy Leipold)

Details

Tony Oursler (B. 1957)
Hysterics (from the 'Sub-lingual' series, featuring Tracy Leipold)
cloth dummy, metal and video projection
overall: 52 x 317/8 x 20½in. (132 x 81 x 52cm.)
Executed in 1994.

Literature

'Tony Oursler: Dummies, Clouds, Organs, Flowers, Watercolors, Videotapes, Alters, Performances and Dolls', Frankfurt 1994 (illustrated in colour, p. 27).
J. Bumpus, 'Tony Oursler', in: 'Contemporary Visual Arts', no.15, 1997 (illustrated in colour, p. 42).
P. Ardenne, 'Les Théatres Cruels de Tony Oursler', in: 'Art Press', no.229, Nov. 1997 (illustrated in colour, p. 21).

Exhibited

London, Lisson Gallery, 'Tony Oursler', 1994.
Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, 'Video Positive 1997', April-June 1997.
Tokyo, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 'Electronically Yours', June-Aug. 1998.

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Lot Essay

"I was working with performer Tracy Leipold, on a series called 'The Sub-lingual series'. That was to do with what would happen, say, if you saw an actress crying, or angry, or experiencing pain or an orgasm, and how this primary relationship is mediated in film and television [...]. I had Tracy weep, then scream..." (In: 'Project Yourself Onto This', in:'Dazed & Confused Magazine', April 1996, p.103.)

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