Pornographic Pursuit No. 2

The participant stands in front of a screen with a video of Marilyn Monroe. To advance the video the viewer has to run. The faster he/she runs, the closer to the normal speed (30 fps) the video plays. Marilyn in the video strips to her panties and plays coquetishly with a coke bottle and an apple, flirting with the camera/viewer. When the viewer stops running, the video starts playing backwards slowly. As the audience gathers, the viewer soon realizes that he and his pursuit became the spectacle.
When the viewer stands still, walks or doesn't run fast enough the video plays in reverse until it reaches first frame and is stopped.
This installation uses footage from Bruce Conner's film "Marilyn Times Five".



Exhibition record:
2001: Integrated Media Show, Calarts, Valencia
2003: REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) opening, Los Angeles
2005: 'New Media Show', OCCC, CA
2007: New Media Meeting, Sweden

Research, design and implementation: Karolina Sobecka