There Is a Myth

Titre international/International title
There Is a Myth
Date de réalisation/Date of creation
1984
Artiste - Auteur/Artist - Author
Pays/Country
Durée/Duration
00:08:53
Description

"The mothers breast returns to its original function as a source of food, thus subverting its narrow adult reading as object of hetrosexual desire.

A single breast fills the screen and is repeatedly pummelled by the infants hand. These brutal caresses soon produce the desired effect and milk oozes from the swollen nipple. The viewer, deprived of any conventionally sexual reading, is left to confront or repress pre-lingual memories of the physical and psychological pleasures of lactation." Catherine Elwes (Source, site web, Lux Online)

Autres informations/Additional Informations

Programme and explanatory information on video and performance works exhibited as part of the British/Canadian Video Exchange '84: Installations, performances and videotapes, Toronto, May - June 1984. Includes information on There is a myth. (Source, pdf, Rewind)

Tuesday Screenings, Summary Video UK - Programme of video works from Recent British Video Exhibition, Toronto March '84. Presented for the first time at the ICA Cinematheque, The Mall, London, 1984. Includes the work There Is a Myth. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)

Programme of ICA June 1984 events, screenings etc. Including Tuesday Screenings, Summary Video UK - video works drawn from Recent British Video Exhibition, Toronto March '84. Presented for the first time at the ICA Cinematheque, The Mall, London, 1984. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)

Introduction by Jean-Luc Outers and abstract for There Is a Myth in the catalogue of the exhibition Voir des vidéos 5ème édition, Wallonie, Brussels, London 3-5th May, 1985, p. 27-29. (Source, pdf, site web Rewind)

Selected excerpts from reviews by Nigel Pollit, City Limits, October 1984; Mike O'Pray, Art Monthly, November 1984 and Sean Cubitt, City Limits, June 1984. (Source, pdf, Rewind)

Lisa Steele, "Mythologies and Militarism", Fuse, Fall 1984. (Source, pdf, Rewind)

There is a Myth review, The Elusive Sign, [CL], c.1988. (Source, pdf, Rewind)

"Out of Bounds", extracts from UK/Canadian Video Exchange programme (curated by Catherine Elwes), 2000. (Source, pdf, Rewind)

Video stills from There is a Myth, 1984. (Source, site web, Rewind)

Type/Type
Format d'origine/Original format
Contributeurs/Contributors
John Muellbauer
Type de contribution
Contributeurs/Contributors
Bruno Muellbauer
Type de contribution