I’m Drinking My Hand (Roughing Up the Lips)
16mm film, Live-Foley sound
3 minutes
2009/2013
A film essay performed and filmed by the artist, in which letters of the phrase “Roughing Up the Lips” are spelled out in short vignettes around her Bushwick apartment. She has used this medium and structure as an exercise to intimately explore the home as if it is her own body. The creation of each letter is made with the tools and objects found around the house.
The work is a careful deliberation of self-communication within physical spaces and mental spaces. She imagines it as a measured exploration of female sexuality as navigated through her quiet (loud!) domestic space. “Not knowing much about my own body and what gives it pleasure, I used this filming process as a play-space, a parallel investigation.” There is ritualized devotion to the attention of seemingly meaningless tasks all around her apartment. There is an urgency of relation between the camera operator and subject. https://vimeo.com/22406960