Performance

The images are derived from found footage of an 8th grade talent show and are combined with a list of gender-specific transformative sexual memories from the age of 4-18. These thirteen-year-old girls perform an out-of-step dance reminiscent of A Chorus Line. Their awkward bodies sway in slow motion as the dancer’s dissolve from one body to the next. The soundtrack is a list of transformative sexual memories combined with haunting, repetitious guitar riffs and drumbeats. This awkward dance is that of adolescent girls whose sexual development is shaped by an awareness that they are the spectacle; an object to be worshipped and despised; a performer who exists as a reflection of the desire of others, while being consumed with desire themselves.

This title is also available on the compilation Real Life MTV.