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Richard Rinehart wrote:
> Shelley Jackson: Skin
> March 1 - May 31, 2011
> Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
> http://netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu
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> Shelley Jackson's Skin is equal parts conceptual art, performance art,
> literature, and Internet art. In 2003, Jackson wrote a 2,095-word short
> story that will never be published in the traditional sense. Instead,
> Jackson invited readers to apply to have one word from the story, chosen
> at random by the author, tattooed on his or her body. The project is
> ongoing and to date 1,875 applicants have been accepted and 553 have
> been permanently inked. This topographical writing will live in the
> world on the bodies of its participants (who are known as "words") and
> will die as they do, word by word.
> "[For] the Berkeley Art Museum, Jackson has cut together video footage
> from a small set of participants to tell a new sub-'Skin' story.
> Recently Jackson e-mailed them to ask that they record a video of their
> word tattoo, and to say the word. From those words recorded by
> participants, she's edited and assembled a new story." - Carolyn
> Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
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> Richard Rinehart
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> Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator
> Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
> bampfa.berkeley.edu
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> University of California, Berkeley
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> 2625 Durant Ave.
> Berkeley, CA, 94720-2250
> ph.510.642.5240
> fx.510.642.5269
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