The strip-teeease

Thirty seconds is the optimal length of an advertising spot. Thirty seconds is also the average amount of time spent watching a video artwork in a museum.

What if a work were to unfold over 6,000 seconds? A span of time still far shorter than that of its creation. This simple proposal of a strip-te(ee)ase invites us to reconsider the space of contemplation.

A single performer invites the public to literally “spend some time” with her.

A trip hors temps in the atelier of the artist.

Before becoming a classical nude, the model offers his/her body to many hours of posing. Those nudes hang later on, hand in hand on the walls or stand side by side in ateliers and museums.  It only takes a few seconds to pass by them.

One of the simplest dramaturgies is that of a strip tease: taking off one by whatever covers the body. Nevertheless if dropping a single piece of robe lasts for an hour, a new relation appears between the watcher and the one performing the denuding.

The strip-teeease is part of the series of works called Animate in Slow Motion, conceived for all sorts of exhibition spaces.