Cheryl Donegan Head (1993)

With Head, Donegan ushered in a new era of brash, lowtech performance video. Here she confronts sex, fantasy, and voyeurism in an autoerotic workout performed to pop music. The tape records a direct performance action: Donegan unplugs the spout of a plastic container; a stream of milk spurts out. She catches the liquid in her mouth, swallows it, dribbles it back into the mouth of the container, licks the spout. As a culminating gesture, she spits the liquid against the backdrop, creating a kind of irrever