![Artificial Treatment, by Gretchen Bender, 1988](/sites/default/files/styles/archive_artwork/public/migrated-assets/media/Digital_archives/Take_It_or_Leave_It/Art/tl_100_bender_artificial-treatment.jpg?itok=yK11bkrt)
Gretchen Bender, Artist
Artificial Treatment
, 1988
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2:44 min.
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Harvestworks Digital Media Arts / TELLUS #21. Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; photography by Brian Forrest
A news announcer reading the story of a comatose woman and her family's struggle with end-of-life questions repeats the details, take after take. Bender's use of an unedited recording that includes the news announcer's discussions with her producer is a meditation on the violently flattening effect of repetition.
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