The Closet

To the Bedroom

Site Specific, 3-channel Video Installation,

Orte des Begehrens Exhibition

Dortmund, Germany

1998

The twelve monitor video installation, Timing, is located next to six dressing rooms within "Life", a women's clothing shop. The entire video installation is of a woman, me, undressing and each piece of clothing I take off is hung on a hanger that hangs in front of me. Every time a piece of clothing is hung up, it slips off the hanger and falls to the floor. This repetitive task ends with my exit, and only the clothes are left on the floor. The video is then looped and the disrobing is continual. The video is in black and white and it does not have sound. Both the choice of black and white and of silence was to make it simple enough to interpret and to set it apart from the chaos in the store. The video image is split into three parts of the body (vertically), the top third, the middle third, and the bottom third. Therefore, three separate videos were used and their speed was manipulated. The top four monitors were slowed down by twenty-five percent, the middle four by fifty percent, and the bottom four by seventy-five percent. Over time the entire image slowly becomes unsynchronized.