VII. Undergraduate work: Sex, Surveillance, and Subjugation
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Other undergraduate performances sought to make visible the violence—literal and symbolic—that pornography inflicts upon women. In Guerrero St. , Wong played the movie Deep Throat on a television set placed in the window of her apartment. The explicit scenes were redacted; to come in and see the full film, viewers had to call Wong on a telephone placed outside. Excision was also the central technique in Cut and Strip . For Cut , Wong glued strips of flesh from pornography magazines to her own body. In Strip , she lined the cracks of the sidewalk in San Francisco’s Union Square with small strips of text and images culled from pornography magazines, echoing her performance Crevice .
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Selected Works: Fragments and Experiments
Opposite: Guerrero St , 1992. Redacted video of Deep Throat film, telephone, video installation in artist’s apartment. Duration variable.
Cut , 1992. Performance with pornography magazines, artist’s body. 8 × 10 inches (photograph documentation).
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