Practisse 1994

Practisse (1994) is a film in the lookmovie catalog, running 6m. Directed by Cheryl Donegan, it features James Joyce. To the accompaniment of the only extant recording of James Joyce reading from his own work, Donegan uses a clear cellophane hood and a pane of glass to create another of her "face paintings." The performance is intercut with the artist painting over her own image as it appears on a video monitor, complicating the relation between her performance and the ways that technology both records and redefines the artist's work.