Sweet Red–2

1986 / 87, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Performance / Installation: White rice paper, red string, monitor, VCR, videotape

The artist was positioned in the interior of the Museum store window, behind a white rice paper screen attached to the storefront glass, while the audience stood outside on the street looking in at the paper-covered window. A piece of red string was coming out through a hole in the paper. When the artist began to pull the string through the hole, the blurry form of her lips pressing against the paper and the window glass combined with the image of the slowly receding string. When the string completely disappeared, a bigger hole was cut to reveal a video monitor with a close-up of a mouth eating a piece of red string behind the rice paper and the monitor glass.

other performance: Sitting in the Green; Sweet Red–1; Face to Face; Weeping Wall
other installation: 0–>∞->0; Moving Light; Green Light / Red Light; Sweet Red–1; Within / Beyond; Contact; Face to Face; Weeping Wall; Light River in Black See; What Does a Chicken Think About?; Baby Green; On the Way Home; Egg Works; Support of Art; Just One Thing; Continuous Thread