Marika's Response to the Pipilotti Rist Reading

What really fascinated me the most about Pipilotti would be her role models. Pippi Longstocking, why I must have read that several times when I was young and her attachment to Mother Nature is also quite interesting. "In many Rist videos, forests, rivers, oceans, and swamps appear drenched by the moisture of arousal." I have never heard of Pipilotti before, so I was envisioning her to have this really "weird" perhaps "creepy" style to her art pieces, but it is quite the contrary. Reading about how her video installations maybe "traceable to the classics, but they are infused with the fantastical imagery common to MTV and porno-pop, not ancient art" has a nice spin on thing. Her style and sophisticated approach is quite impressive. Her "internal source of inspiration resides in emotional turmoil." Her "specific source of her turmoil is discovered in the aftermath of collapsed dreams and failed romantic encounters." Looking through some of her art pieces I can definitely see the vulnerability and innocence portrayed within them. My favorite line from the reading was: "Clothes and jewelry are constituents of our feminine culture that I'm proud of. If I had to choose my sex, then this aspect of feminine culture would certainly be one of the many reasons I would prefer to be a woman."