Fried Sweat, 2008
Mika Rottenberg
Watching this film looks like some type of freak show performance, not to be negative. I say this because at first you hear the sounds of indian music then all of a sudden you hear a grown man groaning and hear something sizzling which turns out to be this guy sweating. As this grown man is here forcing himself to sweat, some of it drips down onto the pan then sizzles and evaporates, then afterwards you see a woman just flexing and performing and behind her is a man breaking wood. The whole purpose of this was for the, "audience to be drawn to theses sensations abilities and physical attributes of the objectified other-". As the piece continues I almost see it as them putting out so much energy for this piece it actually creates a meaning and feeling for the piece if that makes sense, I feel as though once you hear it you'd get the sense of that energy put into this piece and understand the purpose of it.
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