Dara Birnbaum
(New York, New York, 1946 - )
Selected Works
1978-1980
Videotape, 3/4" color and sound
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Purchased with funds from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
1987.21 a-e
© Dara Birnbaum. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
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Dara Birnbaum manipulates found video footage from the 1970s TV series Wonder Woman, pairing it with the song Wonder Woman in Discoland (1978). She remixes clips from the show in a repetitive fashion, distilling and condensing its narrative: running, spinning, saving a man. The double entendres in the lyrics of the disco song highlight the sexual objectification at work in the show’s presentation of a popular superhero commonly associated with female empowerment.
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VideoMedia Art