AmbienTTransformation 2009 Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Shown at ISCP in New York and the Urban Arts Project's Perform Williamsburg Festival in Brooklyn 2009

In reverse time the performer reverts through three stages: blackness, gold leafing the face and coating the face in honey. Throughout the duration of the video the performer is completely asleep, the sound taken from the monologue sleep babble that the performer spoke before the gilding of the face.
performed for mac web cam under the influence of Ambien

From the included Medication guide for AMBIEN CR (Zolpidem tartrate exteded-release tablets):

"What is the most important information I should know about AMBIEN CR?

After taking AMBIEN CR, you may get up out of bed while not being fully awake and do an activity that you do not know you are doing. The next morning, you may not remember that you did anything during the night."

ARTISTIC STATEMENT:

Artistic statement of Amelia Winger bearskin for The Transformation of Mia Farrow and AmienTTransformation.

The Transformation of Mia Farrow and AmbienTTransformation are both works of video that feature performances done for a web cam. Both are testimonials that document a transformation while in an altered state. AmbienTTransformation was created after a month of insomnia; it was my first attempt to sleep with the assistance of prescribed Ambien. It was unknown to me that the video was created until the next morning when I discovered my office covered in honey and the video on my computer screen. Mia Farrow was on the brink of a low blood-sugar coma, having starving herself to near death (according to her doctor) during her hunger strike for Darfur that was broadcast on her youtube channel. Video testimonials provide the materials (and the data) presented, and the statistical formulas hypothesize patterns in video testimonials, popular culture, and transformation.

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