Blow
“The installation consists of a video projection and a microphone featuring 1950s-style design. The projected imagery is one of the most famous scenes in the history of the cinema: a clip from Billy Wilder’s film “The Seven Year Itch” in which Marilyn Monroe stands next to Tom Ewell on the notorious grate above the subway ventilation shaft. Initially she is stationary, smiling down at viewers from the screen. She doesn’t begin moving until she feels a cool breeze from below. In the film, the breath of fresh air that billows Marilyn’s skirt scandalously high above her knees emanates from the subway ventilation shaft, but in “Blow“>Blow! ” it has to be supplied by the installation visitors themselves blowing as hard as they can into the microphone. Marilyn’s skirt flutters in the breeze as long as the visitor blows into the microphone. A breathtakingly pleasurable experience!” This lad looks a little young to be getting up to such business!