Woman as Image (Single Channel) (2010)

For her video work 'Woman As Image', the artist, Alison J Carr created an unlikely duet, using the appropriated imagery of Rita Hayworth performing 'Put the Blame on Mame' in the film 'Gilda' and pairing it with her own performance; a song and dance number using a section of Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' to the tune of Kander and Ebb's 'And All That Jazz'. A love for the oeuvres of both women are enacted through the artist's body. The word's of Mulvey's famous essay are used as a talisman to ward off the male gaze so that the artist can sing and dance like a star in her own musical, on her terms.