Category Archives: Video

Erin Zerbe’s MFA Thesis Talk | MICA Thesis Exhibition 2011

This is a video recording of my thesis talk for my MFA Exhibition of CONTROL. To see details of the work, video clips, and images, please check out the following links: Still Images of Exhibition: flickr.com/​photos/​zerbetron/​sets/​72157626243682729/​ Actual Work: flickr.com/​photos/​zerbetron/​sets/​72157625319828654/​ vimeo.com/​10992985 vimeo.com/​19547499

CONTROL: Excerpt

This is a compressed (sorry about the quality) excerpt from my thesis work, CONTROL. The piece is a process oriented performance documentation, where I put on layer after layer of control garments and corsets until I am unable to breathe. Then I frantically take them all off. The piece deals with the ideas of fatness, read more »

2 hours 22 Mins

This is a time lapse video of 2 hours and 22 minutes that it took for the marks to fade off my body after wearing the Ardyss Body Magic Griddle. I wore the garment for the recommended time of 6 hours, then removed it, and filmed how long it took the impressions to fade from read more »

It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Fat

Fat bodies are considered abject, grotesque and inhuman in our society. Often times fat people are dehumanized, marginalized and demoralized in public by fetishizing their fat body parts on television, news stations, and in popular media. This short video piece deals with the hurtful things said to fat women about their bodies. The hands, shadows, read more »

Subway Shoes

Seoul is one of the high heel capitals of the world. Meaning that there are literally more high heel shoes made, sold, bought, and worn here that most other major cities in the world. It’s so beyond what even I, as an American female, can describe as “normal”. One particular place I found the selling read more »