Preceded by an extensive media blitz, Call Girl was a living installation which offered to anyone who desired it a thirty minute meeting with a call girl. Two stipulations defined the nature of the proposed exchange: that it be 100% all talk, and that it take place at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. Through the formalization and theatricalization of the subsequent events (the call girls were impersonated by actresses), the artist sought to confront the visitor with the expectations he or she has in relation to a woman as an object of sexual fantasy. In the end, demand well exceeded supply. At the same time Norman set up an on-line installation based on the Homeric myth of Penelope, the paragon of womanly faithfulness, wherein she questions the emancipation of the female artist from her traditional venues of intervention. Bedard outlines the complicated logistics of setting up such an event. Comment provides an Homeric response to Norman's Penelope, and Giraudeau comments on the on-line installation.

Nadine Norman : Call Girl (English and French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Bernard Comment

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Canadian Cultural Centre

Manifestly diverse, this work is unified by the elementary nature of its materials (glass, metal, earth). From the human profiles sketched in the drawings to the dissolution of objects in their reflection, Safdie invites us to gaze. Our initial surprise turns to the contemplation of loss. Wajcman situates Safdie's extremely personal work within a widely shared problematic, both local and global, private and collective, ancestral and contemporary.

Sylvia Safdie : Other Places (English and French Edition)

Gerard Wacjman

Individual Artists

<p>Publication documenting Sterbak's new investigation into our perception of and relationship to technology. First explored in 'From Here to There', (presented at the 2003 Venice Biennial) wherein she manipulated images produced with the assistance of a miniature camera worn by a Jack Russell terrier, this new project goes even further. In 'Waiting for High Water', Stanley the terrier now wears three miniature cameras. The resulting muti-screen projection invites the viewer on a hallucinatory journey through the streets of Venice at the peak of its acqua alta, or high tide. Philosopher and curator Hubert Damisch contributes an essay in English and French. Exquisitely produced with a translucent dustjacket and multiple fold outs.</p>

Jana Sterbak: Waiting for High Water (French and English Edition)

Hubert Damisch

History & Criticism

Lisa Klapstock / Paulette Phillips (English and French Edition)

Gérard Wajcman

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