MUSIC VIDEO ARTIST - PIPILOTTI RIST

PIPILOTTI RIST burst onto the international art scene with visually lush video works and multmedia installations that explore female sexuality and media culture, remixing fantasy and the everyday.

In the 1980's and 1990's Swiss born RIST made a series of tapes in which she SUBVERTED the form of music video to explore the female voice and body in pop cultural representations, merging rock music, electronic manipulation and performance.

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WORKS
During her studies RIST started to make 'SUPER 8 FILMS'. Her works last generally only a couple of minutes, and altered in their colours, speed, and sound. Her works generally treat issues related to gender, sexuality, and the human body.

In contrast to those of many other conceptual artists, her colourful and musical works transmit a sense of happiness and simplicity. Rist's works was initially considered by feminist art critics. Nowadays, her works are owned by the most important art collections worldwide.

'I'M NOT THE GIRL WHO MISSES MUCH' 1986


- In this video Rist shows how she dances before a camera in a black dress with uncovered breast and red lips -this is meant to be seen as a parody of female hysteria in which the body is transformed into a grotesque dancing doll.
- The images are monochromatic and fuzzy -this makes the images almost flow and blur together.
- Rists sings "I'm not the girl who misses much." Her version of the first line of the song Happiness Is a Warm Gun by John Lennon - "She's not a girl who misses much". In the end, the image becomes blue and more and more fuzzy; the sound stops.
- She uses high+low speeds in the video to produce obscuring effects

TRANSPOSICION


FRAGMENTATION


AUJOURD'HUI


LULLABY


ALLE RECHTE BEI


- In most of her clips Rist precisely cuts to the start-stop rhythm of post punk music.
- Most of her pieces also reflect her on-going interest in exploring the defects and imperfections of the video-machine (-these ideas are also meant to echo psychological and personAl mistakes)
- They also involve the merging and overlapping of different images to give a dreamlike effect.