Binge (1987)

Binge turns on confession and selfimage using obesity as the main course Losing her familiar shape to overeating Lynn Hershman occupies electronic space to announce her despair and her subsequentand partially successfuldiet It is a fitting medium for such a declaration for not only is much of selfidentity generated by television but shape volume and appearance are rendered abstract by the video effects Hershman employsSteve Seid