reviews

  • Lynn Hershman

    Fuller Goldeen Gallery

    “The first interactive laser artdisk” is a claim that cannot be ignored, yet after viewing (playing?) performance artist Lynn Hershman’s piece twice, for extended periods, I still wondered, Where’s the feat? Hershman’s intentions for this branched narrative seem much grander than the means she has provided for their achievement. Lorna (the heroines name significantly almost but not quite an anagram of “normal”) presents a 40-year-old woman who fears everything and consequently has not left home in four and a half years; to compensate for her agoraphobia, she obsessively watches TV. In contrast

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