Bookends/Not Bookends

Bookends/Not Bookends

Phyllis Baldino 
1993, 5:52 min, color, sound

Description

Wearing silver heels, fishnets and long, red satin gloves, Baldino attaches a Slinky between two bookends with a power drill. Performing as if she were a magician's assistant, she presents a magazine to the camera and wedges it in the Slinky. The bookends and Slinky collapse.

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The "Gray Area" Series: Program 4
1994, 23 min, color, sound