Roberta Breitmore Gallery: extending the archive
Posted by Jeff Aldrich
A gallery has been added to SHL's Second Life space, exhibiting materials from Lynn Hershman's Roberta Breitmore project. Occupying the lower terrace of the LifeSquared gallery building on SHL's Hotgates island, this exhibit uses seven projection screens to display the archival remnants of this examination of persona, identity, and physical embodiment.
From Lynn Hershman's website:
"Roberta Breitmore was for 9 years a private performance of a simulated person. In an era or alternatives, she became an objectified alternative personality. Roberta's first live action was to place an ad in a local newspaper advertising for a roommate. People who answered the ad became participants in her adventure. As she became part of their reality, they became part of her fiction."