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2016
Duration 00:12:30
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This video has been realized with the support of the Mondriaan Fund
2016
Duration 00:12:30
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This video has been realized with the support of the Mondriaan Fund
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To be...Polly D.
In the video To be…Polly D. Van Gorkum used alter egos to fictionalize an autobiographical storyline. The primary one, Polly, looks like a thinner drag-queen version of singer Dolly Parton. She first emerged during some intense theme-parties (bordering on performance art) at the artists' home. To be... Polly D. is a short documentary fiction that treats the life of Polly according to two other alter egos: Zuster van der Gaag, the nurse of an institution where Polly was treated, and K. van Gorkum, a glossier version of the artist herself. Their stories recall meeting Polly, Polly moving to different houses, at a certain moment becoming depressed and having to move to an institution, going on holiday, and having a relapse.
The story of Polly is a distorted version of Van Gorkum's autobiographical story, including bouts with depression. As Van Gorkum put it, she 'didn't have to make up any of it.'
Text by Pia Louwerens