Mandy Morrison
Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000, pp. 166-167
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000
The 4 minute video desperado shows the artist dressed as a cowboy, wearing a John Wayne mask and a gender-bending prothesis that is both penile and clitoral and riding a mechanical bull in a clearly fake Western film set. Gender, pop culture, consumerism, the american ceaseless quest of territory are the objects of investigation, and they are simultaneously engaged and resisited.
ITEM 2000.094 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Desperado – Mandy Morrison
Padded Room – Mandy Morrison
The Wizard of Oz – Mandy Morrison