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Is this video an alternative philosophical cookery lesson about complement, an ironic feminist explanation of the differences between the sexes in particular, or just the registration of a dull performance? The last possibility can be quickly dismissed by the atmosphere of explanation and the attention to detail. Furthermore the title brings you into taoist cosmology (Yin and Yang) and, if you open the dictionary at Yang, to the Chinese physicist Yang who successfully attacked the principle of conservation of parity in physics in 1957. The performance has the character of an absurd ritual. You see a woman in white clothes with a yellow ball on her head (fried egg) stooping in a yellow circle (hoop) to lay an egg through a hole in her pants. Once she has neatly cleaned her cloaca with light yellow tissues, the freshly laid egg is collected by a cockerel and is then used to make a fried egg. On a second occasion, the yolk and the white of the egg are swapped around and the third time, the egg is divided into half a normal egg and half a back-to front egg. This video could perhaps best be summarised as follows: it is a tape about auto-genesis and theft: a fried egg lays an egg and a cockerel steals it to make fried eggs of it.
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Willem van Weelden
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Camera, acteurs Alix Pearlstein, Christopher Steadman, Thanks to Charles Long
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