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2016.41.3
I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much
Artist
Pipilotti Rist
Title
I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much
Creation Date
1986
Century
late 20th century
Dimensions
Running Time: 7:46
Object Type
video
Medium and Support
color, sound
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
Copyright
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Accession Number
2016.41.3
In the mid-1980s Rist, a member of an experimental post-punk pop group, began creating a series of music-based, single-channel tapes that subversively explored cultural fantasies of the female body. One such work was I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much, made while she studied at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. It combines rock music and performance with electronic manipulation to reveal the absurdity of pop music’s repetitive qualities and representation of women. Clad in a black low-cut dress, the artist chants the work’s title phrase, which begins as a mantra that loses meaning as the footage speeds and slows. Video distortion effects obscure or blur Rist’s erratic movements, her doll-like body, and her voice, creating a grotesque parody of female hysteria in visual and sonic form. The title references the 1968 Beatles song “Happiness Is a Warm Gun,” whose line “she’s not the girl who misses much” refers to Yoko Ono.
