Prior to this tape Lydia Schouten had used video as part of her performance or to register it. But this is a television recording. ‘In making this tape I started from the assumption that I wanted to produce a spectacle’ she writes.

“I’m interested in the influence of the mass media on our attitude to everyday life. The images I show are about ‘desire’, ‘rhythm’ and ’emotion”. Just as in her performances, she uses herself as model in this jungle fantasy in a new wave setting – her body is the artist’s brush. (LS)