burning rubber

7 1/2 hours sleep

Whirling

wardwalk

thorazine rebel

burning rubber

Do You Ever Smell Burning Rubber? 2000

camera and editing by Les LeVeque

(56 second excerpt) Total running time10:25 minutes Color, Stereo

In Do You Ever Smell Burning Rubber, Dooling poses as a psychopharmacologist and asks a series of questions used by doctors to screen patients for adverse reactions to Prozac.

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seven and a half hours

Seven and a Half Hours of Sleep 1999

camera and editing by Les LeVeque

(30 second excerpt) Total running time 5:00 minutes Black and White, Silent

Seven and a Half Hours of Sleep is an unedited document of Dooling sleeping for an actual 7 ½ hours. Shot with an old black and white tube surveillance camera in the process of failing, the camera captured one frame every couple of seconds, creating a twitchy and restless vision of sleep.

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Whirling

Whirling 1998

Daniella Dooling in collaboration with Les LeVeque

(10 second excerpt) Continuous installation loop Color, Silent

Whirling is a digital performance of Dooling wearing Camisole, a straight jacket covered with thousands of artificial fingernails, spinning endlessly with her arms wide open in a dervish dance of liberation.

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Wardwalk

Wardwalk 1998

Daniella Dooling in collaboration with Les LeVeque

(1:39 minute excerpt) Total running time 7:20 minutes Color, Stereo

Wardwalk is a stylistic parody of fashion and music video staged in a hospital environment. It is a playful dialectic of institution and entertainment reclaiming a woman’s body from the social constrictions of glamour and sickness

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Thorazine Rebel

Thorazine Rebel 1997

In collaboration with Les LeVeque

(1:33 excerpt) Total running time 8:22 minutes Color, Stereo

Thorazine Rebel is a fast-paced, psychedelic video based on a performance by Dooling Where she scratches, claws and rubs away temporary bug tattoos that cover her body. Fluttering between pleasure and pain, it represents the physical body as a site of hallucinatory projection, a psychic space where the delusional mind inscribes a false perception onto the skin. Thorazine Rebel is grounded in the specificity of personal experience (LSD overdose and hospitalization) while maintaining a relationship to sexuality, body alteration, and rock-and-roll.

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