Physical Vision, 1989, Chicago, Randolph Street Gallery, project video documentation

Physical Vision, 1989, Chicago, Randolph Street Gallery, project video documentation

Lynn Book’s original multimedia performance project, Physical Vision, premiered at Randolph Street Gallery, in Chicago, December, 1989 and continued to be performed through 1990 at venues in Chicago and New York. For this solo project, Book was interrogating Woman’s subjectivity within and outside of patriarchal structures, in particular, via language and visual representation. Books provocative physicality in conjunction with disruptive writing and voice tactics challenged notions of the 19th C hysteric feminine that begins the performance. Sketching a disjointed trajectory Book transforms into a complexity of gender plays, ending with a typically masculinized rock and roller contemporary to the time of the performance in the late 1980s. The project marked the first time Book worked with a director - Jill Daly, and continued her collaboration with experimental filmmaker, Sharon Couzin, making a short film, with Book and Daly performing that worked with selected text from Marguerite Duras’ “The Malady of Death”. Kent Devereaux composed sound for the project and Lou Mallozzi was the lighting designer. Book wrote and/or arranged found text (except for the Duras excerpt) and composed the vocal melodies.

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Lynn Book Projects
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