Laurie Beth Clark
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Art (4-D).
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Laura Hyunjhee Kim
Anyone Can Say I Love You But You Belong To Me
This installation was created to evoke a physical and visceral response from the viewers. Installed in a small water tank room of a dingy basement, the piece was viewed individually under the guidance of the artist. After each viewer was handcuffed with a leather belt and blind-folded, he/she entered a narrow hallway that led into a small room. In complete darkness, the viewers were seated on an old tire and allowed to take off their blindfold when themusic came on. A video was shown to the viewers and they were directed to watch it until the artist reentered the room. The black and white video hada fast tempo image of a blind-folded boy screaming and violently shaking accompanied by a loop Marilyn Monroe Anyone Can Say I Love You, specifically edited to repeat the phrases Anyone can say I love you,Love you, But you belong to me in a random order. After three minutes, thevisual ended with a black screen. The viewers were abandoned in complete darkness with just the loop of music coming out of the black television screen for another 30 seconds. After the video ended, the artist came into the room and turned on the lights for the viewers and led them out of the room.