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UGLY GIRL
_films – Living Art *

* Living Art is a common project of Steven Cohen and Elu Kieser which consists of a series of provocative public interventions in which they use their bodies (and sometimes those of others) to create a “living art” which mixes sculpture, dance and cross-dressing . These pieces include DOG, FAGGOT, JEW and UGLY GIRL.

Ugly girl developed out of Princess Menorah’s costumes. A component of Living art, it presents a critical insight into a marginal “type”. Its public interventions included going to buy a ticket for a rugby match at Loftus Versveld stadium in Pretoria, as well as attendance at the Durban July horse race. Ugly girl’s costume plays with drag.

UGLY GIRL RUGBY

MATCH TEST
Loftus Versveld stadium, Pretoria

Original format : color video / 4:3
Filmed by Amir Mizrach
Single Channel HD Video
20 juin 1998
2 min 48 sec
Original format : color video / 4:3
Filmed by Amir Mizrach
Single Channel HD Video
20 juin 1998
2 min 48 sec

UGLY GIRL FASHION

FASHION STAKES
GREYVILLE – DURBAN

At the Durban July, her ensemble is spattered with blood, which, Cohen commented, was “inspired by street violence”.

Original format : color video / 4:3
filmed by Innocent
Single Channel HD Video
4 juillet 1998
2 min 47 sec
Original format : color video / 4:3
filmed by Innocent
Single Channel HD Video
4 juillet 1998
2 min 47 sec

UGLY GIRL (ART GALLERY)

DURBAN ART GALLERY

In the gallery performance, blood issued from Ugly girl’s mouth and anus, and an image of a healthy, ejaculating penis, alongside an image of a little girl with the premature ageing disease progeria, putting on lipstick, was projected as a backdrop, challenging aesthetic values: “Most people would see the penis as ugly and the sick child as sweet,” said Cohen.

Original format : color video / 4:3
Filmed by Janine Tilley & Belinda Blignaut
Single Channel HD Video
juillet 1998
1 min 02 sec
Original format : color video / 4:3
Filmed by Janine Tilley & Belinda Blignaut
Single Channel HD Video
juillet 1998
1 min 02 sec

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