Pornographic Pursuit No. 2

The participant stands in front of a screen, onto which a video of Marilyn Monroe is rear-projected. The video is stopped on the first frame. To advance it the viewer has to run. The faster he/she runs, the closer to the normal speed (30 fps) the video plays. Marilyn in the video strips to her panties and plays erotically with a coke bottle and an apple, flirting with the camera/viewer. When the viewer stops running, the video starts playing backwards slowly. As the audience gathers, the viewer soon realizes that he/she and his/her pursuit became the spectacle. When the viewer stands still, walks or doesn't run fast enough the video plays in reverse until it reaches first frame and is stopped. This installation uses footage from Bruce Conner's film "Marilyn Times Five".