Drawing Complaint: Memoirs of Bjork-Geisha (Click for performance footage)
A Guerilla Performance by
Tina Takemoto and Jennifer Parker
At the Opening of the
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint Exhibition
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
June 21, 2006
Tina Takemoto (aka Bjork-Geisha) and Jennifer Parker (aka Matthew-
Whaler) presented unsolicited performances of fan dancing, lip
synching, samurai whaling, and chopstick hara-kiri during the opening
of Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint exhibition at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art in response to Drawing Restraint 9, a recent
film featuring Barney and Bjork as “occidental visitors” on a
whaling ship in Japan.
