Alexandra Bischoff
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
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    • beholden
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
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    • secretory
    • spit shine
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    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • a woman’s charm
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • "GAGS"
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • long distance
    • L'Origine, Plucked
    • no, tell me
    • "Peach Fuzz Honies" (sic)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Plucking L'Origine
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Recent
    • beholden
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
    • spit shine
  • Archive
    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • a woman’s charm
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • "GAGS"
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • long distance
    • L'Origine, Plucked
    • no, tell me
    • "Peach Fuzz Honies" (sic)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Plucking L'Origine
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum
​Skin on Skin, 2015-16
one bunch of red grapes, green silk pyjamas, one thigh, gold thread, Instax photograph, finishing nails
​duration: one bunch of grapes or one thigh
photo dimensions: 3 1/2 x 2 inches; necklace dimensions: variable
​
Dave Frishberg wrote the popular jazz song "Peel me a Grape" in 1962. When I was a child I watched my mother practice this song, among many others, because she was the vocalist in a jazz band. It was a curious way for a little girl to glean the possible uses of her feminine charms. This performance is intended to reference both pornographic and slasher-film aesthetics.  

Performed at Robert Lynds Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. on December 15, 2015 for the exhibition "Small Works"; at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary, AB on April 8, 2016 for the performance festival "IKG Live 1".
Photo: Jeremy Pavka.
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Recent
    • beholden
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
    • spit shine
  • Archive
    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • a woman’s charm
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • "GAGS"
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • long distance
    • L'Origine, Plucked
    • no, tell me
    • "Peach Fuzz Honies" (sic)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Plucking L'Origine
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum