Johnny Ray Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 25, 2007
VISUAL ART/PERFORMANCE (Picks Page)
"Justification for Grooming"
Does beauty lie in the eye of the beholder or, as Kim Gordon once droned, does beauty lie? Erin Gallup's "Justification for Grooming" might not set out to definitively answer those questions, but — in using an actual hair salon as a setting to examine the habits humans fall into while attempting to look good — it's likely to brush up against them. Gallup will present a one-time-only six-hour music score that she put together with Scott Weiser that makes use of samples from beauty product commercials on radio and television. At 7:29 p.m., she'll allow members of the audience to "take a cut" of her hair, a ritual that suggests a more directly physical update of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece.
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Daily Candy, July 26, 2007
The Weekend Guide
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