For this submission we have watched  Lauren Barri Holstein’s Splat, Ron Athey’s Self Obliteration and Andy Warhol’s Blowjob, Empire, kiss and Mario Banana.

For my video I think I have  got elements from all of them but the main inspiration I think was Andy Warhol.

All 4 films catch my attention straight away and specially Blowjob, kiss and Mario Banana have obvious sexual references and there is a feeling of voyeurism.

The title of both Kiss and Blowjob before the film has even started  makes us want to watch. I am excited to watch and I am waiting for something else to come, probably I am waiting for some sort of climax but the the actions are the same they keep repeating the same there is no climax and I become bored and even irritated.

In Mario Banana is not the same because the film is a lot shorter and I remain excited  and intreagued by the exoticism of the character.

From Splat themain thing that I take to make my piece is performing  gender wrong in a funny way. One of my favourite parts of this performance is the use of a knife as a phallus that cuts bags of ketchup with it and makes a real mess.

From Ron Athey’s Self Obliteration I think just like in splat I just make use  of performing my gender wrong that causes uneasiness because of the explicitness.

For my performance to camera My Pleasure, 

I pretend that a banana is my own phallus.

The still image and the title on their own give a false impresion of what the performance actually is. One could think that the banana is going to be used as a dildo for my pleasure. Instead I stroke it and play with it, lubricating it just as a man would do when masturbates. I use the title  as a bit of a bait then I slow down the film to make it long and and the action changes slightly to give a bit of titillation but there is never a climax and it becomes boring.