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Fort Hays Gorilla Girls Fill the Space

Videography: Eric Stumon


A performance involving an age range of women painting themselves with clay slip and then making body prints on a roll of pink paper. This performance is about a women's acceptance of her aging body in regards to society's view that women should be young and beautiful in order to be important. This also reflects the goals of the Guerrilla Girls Group, working to promote women in the arts, dismissing the idea that "women need to naked to get into the Met Museum".

Materials used: Slip, paper, video, masks, baby pool. Filmed by Eric Stumon at Fort Hays State University 2016.






The video was then shown alongside the body prints in the Moss- Thorns Gallery in Hays, Kansas







For more information on the real Guerrilla Girls go to: http://www.guerrillagirls.com

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