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Categories: Video

Keywords: Aggression | Pop | Self-Portrait


Great Britain
 

 Tracey Emin
«Why I never became a dancer»

eokunstpreis 1997, ZKM Karlsruhe)

«When I was a girl, I slept with a lot of men in my home town. I loved sex. And they hated me for it. In the end I left for greater and bigger things.»(Tracey Emin)The narrator recapitulates the painful path from child to woman. As naive teenager she thinks she has found in sex a simple way of gaining fulfilment until she discovers her real calling – dancing. Soon, however, she suffers the crucial trauma that explains why she never became a dancer: for while she is on the floor at a dance competition, former ‹lovers› chant the word «slag» in time to the music. Afterwards, the narrator enters the picture for the first time and executes in front of and with the camera a liberating dance that documents the personal identity she has nevertheless found.
(Source: catalog International Video Art Award 1997, ZKM Karlsruhe)