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Dancing at Peckham

Artist Gillian Wearing (British, b. 1963)
Date1994
Mediumvideo
Dimensionsrunning time: 25 min (25 min)
Classification(s)
  • PHOTO
Credit LineGift of Peter Norton
Object numberM.2015.17.64
DescriptionShows the artist dancing in a London shopping precinct. In this 1994 performance she imagines somebody letting loose as if in the privacy of their own bedroom -- in a public space. Wearing was inspired by a woman she saw dancing uninhibitedly by herself at a jazz gig.
Editionedition of 10
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceClyde Beswick, Los Angeles; Interim Art, Los Angeles
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