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| Pee Performance #4, 2005, C-Print, 20 x16 |
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Cathy Akers
wunderchat2@sbcglobal.net.
In my series of photographs entitled "Pee Performances",
I attempt to address the prevalent idea of women being closer
to nature than men. Although my female subjects are interacting
with nature in an intimate way, they must assume awkward positions
in order to pee effectively. These women are marking their
territory and establishing their right to be in the woods
through the act of peeing.
At the same time, they are exposing their most private parts
in a space that is considered to be public, and therefore
are putting themselves in a very vulnerable position. These
women are simultaneously vulnerable and powerful, exposed
but sheltered by their own self-possession, their own intense
subjectivity, while performing the act of peeing.
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