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, feminism, and body policing as they relate the the marketing of “control” over our bodies.
My name is Erin Zerbe, and I'm a multimedia artist working in video, photography, performance, and new media. My work specializes in human interactions and relationships with the body, tackling issues of body image and cultural perceptions of fatness. Currently I teach at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Kinetic Imaging and Art Foundations Departments. Artist. Professor. Troublemaker. I wear my titles with pride.