Patty Chang

(Untitled) Eels

Video of eels in my shirt while laying on my back.

Losing Ground

A video work that visually alludes to Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World" (1948) and depicts Chang on a suburban lawn that is curiously destabilizing.

Melons

A performance juggling a narrative of an imaginary cultural ritual of receiving a plate at a relatives death with the act of cutting and eating a melon while balancing a plate on the head. Melons is a video based on images and script about my aunt’s death from breast cancer and the emotion void in my memory. The text is a construction of rituals that plays with notions of the authentic. The act of juggling too much text and imagery immerses the viewer in a third, imagined narrative.

Shaved

Chang shaved her pubic hair with Perrier while blindfolded using touch to guide action.