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The Adventures of a Nurse

Eleanor Antin

1976 00:16:40 United StatesEnglishColorStereo4:3Video

Description

Playing with cliched feminine personae, Eleanor Antin in The Adventures of a Nurse manipulates cut-out paper dolls to tell the story of innocent Nurse Eleanor who meets one gorgeous, intriguing, and available man after another. Nurse Eleanor is the fantasy creation of Antin, who is costumed as a nurse. Staged on a bedspread and acted by a cast of one, The Adventures of a Nurse moves through successive layers of irony to unravel a childlike, self-enclosed fantasy of a young woman’s life.

The original total running time for this piece is 1:04:00, this is a 16:40 excerpt for this collection.

This title is only available on I Say I Am: Program 2.

About Eleanor Antin

Eleanor Antin has been a leading performance artist since the 1970s, using fictive personas to explore the idea of the self and female identity as developed in feminist writings. Her performances feature a recurring set of "historical" characters—past lives invented and acted out by Antin, including Russian ballerina Eleanora Antinova and Nurse Eleanor of the Crimean War.

Also see: 

Eleanor Antin: An Interview