revenge at its best?

[highlyeccentric]

Sophie Calle has filled the French pavilion of the Venice Biennale with a praised exhibition about her emailed dumping letter. Over two years, she distributed the missive to 107 women professionals, photographed them reading it and invited them to analyse it, according to their job. The ex's grammar and syntax have been torn apart by a copy editor, his manners rubbished by an etiquette consultant and his lines pored over by Talmudic scholars. He has been reordered by a crossword-setter, evaluated by a judge, shot up by a markswoman, second-guessed by a chess player and performed by the actress Jeanne Moreau. A forensic psychiatrist decided he was a "twisted manipulator". The temple to a woman scorned is entitled Take Care of Yourself (Prenez soin de vois), immortalising lines that Calle, if she hadn't had recourse to the international art world, might have read again and again in tears.

Comments

[daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com]

awesome. this seems to be my response to many of your blog entries lately. :)

she rocks!

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

because i'm just naturally awesome ;)

how did the historiographical evility go?

evility

[daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com]

well... it got finished. this is good. and i had waaaay too many words, so had to do a lot of condensing, which i'm hoping will make it harder to tell that there are big gaps where i should've done more research. the experience highlighted just how much work i need to do on the actual thesis... argh! but i am reasonably happy with the historiographical essay i think. i don't get marks for that or my other major essay til NEXT SEMESTER though and i think i'll go mad in the meantime waiting to know whether i'm an okay person!! hehe not that i evaluate my self-worth according to a number given to me by some random academic ooooh of course not... *embarrased cough*

Re: evility

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

erm... no, me neither! why would someone do that! *chirpy tone*