The Doll Games

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

The Doll Games

"The Doll Games: A ground-breaking series of theatrical performances by Shelley and Pamela Jackson that took place in a private home in Berkeley, California in the first half of the 1970′s."

"In the project we are archeologists, voyeurs, utopians of doll games. Sometimes we’re embarrassed. The doll games are inaccessible in a lot of ways—fundamentally baffling, no matter how much we scour our memories and pore over the doll box—but it still seems possible, as we assemble the fragments, that we might be able to recover them somehow or even bring them to some new life. We’re curious what that new life would be."- Pamela Jackson

"This was a multiple, theatrical sense of identity, surviving head-swapping and sex changes. In these prosthetic selves we could be braver and cleverer than we really were, but also stupider, crueler, and more shameless." – Shelley Jackson

Fascinating in-depth tongue-in-cheek scholarly look back at the fantasy life of these two sisters playing with their dolls. With extensive creepy photos of these often mutilated and anatomically modified dolls. – Via Linkfilter

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