Short film inspired by the critical theories of Georges Bataille and Georges Didi-Huberman, examining the links in art between cruelty, nudity, sex and death, and the kink/peril-based artworks of one of my case studies, 'Shirley S. Willing'. Title (and to an extent, content) being a reference to the infamous 'snuff/video art' film by post-Throbbing Gristle music pioneers, Psychic TV.
Credits: Reading from opening chapter of The Pornography of Representation, Susanne Kappeler, Polity Press. Cambridge, 1994.
Footage of Vienna Actionists' Orgien Mysterien Theater and Gunter Brus courtesy of Youtube.com.
Live TV broadcast of Genitorturers and UK BDSM scene from unnamed Channel 4 documentary programme, late 1990s (personal video archive).
