Performance art as an advertisement: Art Forum Magazine, Summer
Issue 1999. Modern Day Earth Mother, global
cooridnator--Peace...Wearing "Latex Your Mind" Tshirt. Latex
Your Mind is trademarked. The back of the t shirt says: There is a
technological highway running thru your mind make wise choices 21st
century-globally speaking-peace.
Advertising, commercialism churns on our discontent and
self-rejection; buy this and you will be more "accepted",
lovable, desirable... The "Latex your Mind" advertisement
takes commercialism and puts forth a wish for the 21st century that "we"
globally get it together! Latex conjures up issues of safe sex which
is crucial and I wanted to take it a step deeper by urging us to start
with our minds and make wise choices---globally speaking, globally
thinking and with our lives from moment to moment.
The background is the Washington Memorial but the blurriness and the
cropping make the image vague enough to be a city anywhere in the
world, and no, it is not Hillary, and yes t-shirts are still
available!!!
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