Document (1972)

Two disembodied male colleagues direct Lynda Benglis who sits between a monitor and a camera lens loudly exclaiming her vision for the video were watching Playing with the idea of originality and how the reproduction of images troubles fine art categories Benglis affixes a double portrait of herself to the monitor screen and draws moustaches on both likenesses Document ends with Benglis writing the videos title and copyright Dec 1972 directly on the monitor underneath the photograph validating this video accomplishment as an original artwork