Patty Chung

           Patty Chang is known for videos and photography documenting her own performances. In her performance, she uses her body as a medium of expression and also uses satire to deal with such things like contemporary gender issues. Patty Chug describes her performance as “time based sculpture” and often she uses her body and often she establishes a connection between food like melon and her body.

             In her performance called Melon (At a Loss) in 1998, she puts plate on her head and facing the camera. Chang narrates a story about the plate, which is made in honor of her aunt who had died. As she speaks, she slices through left sided and oversized bra, which later becomes halved melon. The artist tied melon in front of her body as breast. She then gradually scoop out the melon with her hand and piles the seeds onto a plate balanced on her head. By eating the melon, she tells us the story of her aunt who died of breast caner. Also the empty space in the back of her in the middle makes us to more focus on her movement/performance.