Photo Anna Kukielka |
Marilyn Monroe's last 20 minutes before committing suicide
Dancing in Place, 7-8 August 2010 at Rimbun Dahan
Western neuroses meets the Third World. The work is an experiential
exploration of the Buddhist concept that earthly desires can lead to
enlightenment.
The work is a response to meeting a whole new environment and culture,
and a personal quest to understand both my own desires and how to make
them come from a higher perspective. In the context of the Third World
certain neuroses becomes ridiculous. Yet they were created as a
response to the Western world I have lived in all my life. How do I
cope in the Third World? How will my neuroses behave? Is there a
control in this experiment?
Marilyn Monroe, goddess of the Western world, a legend still
worshiped, becomes the symbol and character of what the Western world
promotes as success. Yet I suspect her life was not a happy one. I
have my own spin on it. I relate to it.
Judy Garland is singing somewhere over the rainbow. Marilyn is nowhere
to be seen, only a hijab lying by the side of the pool, and the record
playing and playing again and again... |
