Alexandra Bischoff
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
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    • a muse me
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    • L'Origine, Plucked
    • "Peach Fuzz Honies" (sic)
    • Plucking L'Origine
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Recent
    • a muse me
    • au clair de la lune
    • beholden
    • crick
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • house poor
    • no, tell me
    • Notes on Madonna
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
    • SOOT
    • spit shine
  • Archive
    • a woman’s charm
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • For the Good Times
    • "GAGS"
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • long distance
    • L'Origine, Plucked
    • "Peach Fuzz Honies" (sic)
    • Plucking L'Origine
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum

​L'Origine, Plucked, 2018
attendant, green curtain, stanchions, AudioConexus Audio 3 Guide and audio, plucked pubic hair, black chaise, white sheet, the artist's clothes on a hanger
performance duration: variable
audio duration: 2'10"
L'Origine, Plucked (2018) investigates Joanna Hiffernan, the infamous model for Courbet's L'Origine du Monde (1866). Viewers form a queue, and are permitted one at a time to gaze at my pubic region. In preparation for the performance, I plucked my pubic hair into an abstract, geometrical design. While in the room with me, viewers listen to a speculative biography for Hiffernan on an museum industry standard audio guide. The performance concludes by speaking aloud to each viewer, "I grew mine out for months before I plucked."

Performed 
at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary, AB on January 12, 2018, for the performance festival "IKG Live 2".
Photo: Jeremy Pavka.
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Recent
    • a muse me
    • au clair de la lune
    • beholden
    • crick
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • house poor
    • no, tell me
    • Notes on Madonna
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
    • SOOT
    • spit shine
  • Archive
    • a woman’s charm
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • For the Good Times
    • "GAGS"
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • long distance
    • L'Origine, Plucked
    • "Peach Fuzz Honies" (sic)
    • Plucking L'Origine
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum