Critical Writing Index

The Nothing Act: Alix Pearlstein thwarts her actors' standard techniques in order to heighten a viewer's awareness of video-mediated perception

by Paul David Young

Art in America, Apr. 2003, pp. 82-87

A critical review of the the work of Alix Pearlstein. The video installations discussed explore themes of mirrors, representation and mediated reality, using actors, who are watched as they watch back, embodying neutrality within anonymous spaces.

ITEM 2003.155 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Moves in the FieldAlix Pearlstein

The Drawing LessonAlix Pearlstein

Two WomenAlix Pearlstein