Danielle Adair: "Sex and Rage" and Responsibility and March 17th and “The Documents of 20th Century Art” and Texas Holdem and Art Groupies and Walter Hopps and Tripods and “That’s Hot” and War Protest and Theory.

"Sex and Rage" and Responsibility and March 17th and “The Documents of 20th Century Art” and Texas Holdem and Art Groupies and Walter Hopps and Tripods and “That’s Hot” and War Protest and Theory.

[2007, two-channel video installation, 1 hour video and 24 minute audio loop]

Artist Michael Asher and I read a transcript of an interview with Eve Babitz, the nude model and writer in the infamous photograph of Marcel Duchamp playing chess. Asher reads Babitz’s words including excerpts from her novel of the late 1970’s, “Sex and Rage.” In the video I teach Asher poker, and the two channels are projected side-by-side with audio ambient within the space. This work is part of my larger project From the Perspective of An Artist Who Writes.

Video Still

Installation Image

Reference Image: Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp, Pasadena Museum of Art, 1963