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Phantom Limb (1997)
Single Channel Video
02:40
I hit a ping-pong ball against a mirrored wall for 500 times in a row. I video taped myself twice at the same time. A video camera on a tripod taped a series of differently colored balls as they hit the wall. Intermittently my arm with the ping-pong paddle is seen coming in and out of the frame as a phantom. The other essential component of this work is the sound of the ping-pong ball hitting the wall. The performance was done four times each time using a different colored ball. Each performance had a different rhythm of striking the ball so that each performance had a very different sound track. When all four performances are installed together it creates a work of percussion.