Beth B. and Ida Applebroog Belladonna (1989)
Artists Beth B. and Ida Applebroog use videotaped performance combined with figurative drawing and captions to create a disturbing, provocative program about the unthinkable yet prevalent occurrence of child victimization. The script for the program is delivered in brief monologues by a cast of several men and women reading statements from various texts, including the writings of Freud and the testimonies of Josef Mengele s victims. It is then intercut with a boy s voice repeating I am not a bad person to powerful and moving effect. In black and white and color, this work plays short sentences and phrases off one another. Spoken texts include excerpts from Joel Steinberg s 1988 trial, testimonies from Josef Mengele s victims, and Sigmund Freud s case history of 1919 A Child Is Being
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