Standing In, 1987, Chicago, Beacon Street Theater, project video documentation 01

Standing In, 1987, Chicago, Beacon Street Theater, project video documentation 01

Lynn Book’s original multimedia performance work, “Standing In”, was informed by feminist and film theories to question and disrupt cultural constructions of the feminine. In particular, Book highlighted themes of presence and absence by way of multiple plays on the idea of the stand-in, someone or something replacing something else. By extension, Book’s increasing interrogation of the problem of Woman as representation was finding form here, and later with greater nuance, in several following works. Her emerging years-long collaboration with experimental filmmaker Sharon Couzin, begins with her performing a flimmaker, as well as a complexly gendered lecturer on poiesis – bringing something into existence that didn’t exist before. E.Jay Sims, another collaborator and cohort across several projects from the time, also performed, as well as Werner Herterich as stand-in for a male director of the ‘show’ on display for the audience. This video documentation of the performance, a higher resolution, runs about 43 minutes.

http://youtu.be/gUC2z_czn6k

Lynn Book Projects
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2022-02-06T18:40:47Z

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