katherine behar
katherine behar: this.construction();

Title: Pipecleaner (v2.0).
Media: Cross-platform screensaver
Year: 2007(beta) / 2011(v2.0)

Credits

Performers: Katherine Behar, Zoe Kira Mey.
Camera and Editing: Katherine Behar.
Technical Assistance: Scott Penkava.
On-set: David Lukowski, Scott Penkava, Emma Spertus.
PC Lenders: Susana Gaudêncio Ryan Roa, Valerie Streit, Patricia Valencia.
Special Consultation: Exotic Dance Central, NYC.
Thank You: Tyra Bombetto, DISORIENTALISM, Exotic Dance Central, Susana Gaudêncio, David Lukowski, Marianne Kim, Scott Penkava, Ryan Roa, Emma Spertus, Valerie Streit, Ying Yu Tan, Patricia Valencia.

art: Pipecleaner (v2.0)

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Pipecleaner is a cross-platform screensaver.

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Statement

"3D-Pipes," a kitschy late-90s Microsoft screensaver is the lo-fi setting for a quirky post-feminist intervention. Wearing a dress made out of cleaning gloves, a pole dancer invades the screensaver's maze of pipes. Her spins, gyrations, and efforts to climb and clean the pipes become absurd when reduced to byte-sized edits that mimic the original screensaver's recombinant logic.