"One of the most arrestingly beautiful and searching Canadian works of this era is Lisa Steele's three-channel video Internal Pornography, 1975. In one channel, she stands nude against the background of a map, eventually drawing and erasing her fallopian tubes and ovaries onto her stomach; in another , she is lounging in a bed, lugubriously narrating harrowing passages of her life. This is undoubtedly a feminist work about identity, but it is also one that encapsulates a deep and almost mercurial ambivalence, as though the artist resented the question itself: questions of identity inevitably abstract from the irreducible reality of the body itself."

from:
Baird, Daniel. "The Rematerialization of the Idea." Border Crossings Issue No. 116 Winter 2010/11: 71-72. Print.


Steele & Tomczak video are represented by Vtape