lick my window !
Site Responsive Installation & Performance Series
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Credits
Direction • Nadine Norman
Camera & Sound • Heide Aufgewekt
Editing • Heide Aufgewekt& Nadine Norman
Production • Nadine Norman
Music :
Pierre, lèche ma vitre ! • Patrice Felix-Tchicaya, 2001
Young Stud • (sampled by Bentley Rhythm Ace) Klaus & Uschi
Nymphomania (a collection of sexy European music from the 60‘s) • Sexy Hexy, Germany
The artist acknowledges support from • The Conseil des arts et du lettres du Québec
Pierre, Lick my window ! © Nadine Norman 2001
The title Lèche ma vitre ! (Lick my window !), is a play on words based on the French expression lèche-vitrine (window shopping), which not only relates to consumerism but conjures up other sexual metaphors, i.e., lèche-cul (kiss-ass, sucking up, etc.), and further connotes submission to an authority.
Lick my window ! co-opts the museum facade windows with a selection of multi-coloured vinyl texts, universal slogans appropriated from corporate car marketing images associated with the sponsorship of the museums cultural events.
Performance Synopsis
Visitors are given suckers, and participants are offered protective uniforms while proceeding to clean the museum windows with specially designed squeegees that have a silicone appendage in the form of a large, languid cow’s tongue.
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Exhibition
Artcité, Musée d’art contemporain de, Montreal, 2001
Components
Silicone squeegies
t-shirts (various slogans : all sizes)
rubber gloves
plastic buckets
ghetto blaster
“car wash” play list
suckers
vinyl lettering
bumper stickers
suckers
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Multi-coloured Vinyl texts appropriated from the M.A.C.M’s car sponsor adhered to the museum’s glass facade