For this piece, two young girls screaming, insulting, gesturing, and cat-calling face one another. They improvise imitations of the way men yell out insults and dirty jokes amongst themselves, or direct them towards women. The girls imaginatively appropriate male aggression to turn it into an over-the-top game and dance.

Video Installation.

2 frontal projections.

Sound.

Duration: 3:02 minutes, loop.

Dimensions: 79 x 59 inches, each.

 

Photograph.

Diptych.

Lightjet c-prints.

Dimensions: 3.3 x 4 feet, each.

Articles & Interviews about Cockfight.

 

Helguera, Pablo. Yoshua Okón. Art Nexus. No. 41 Vol. 3. 2001. [PDF]