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I get so emotional (karaoke version) 2006

Artwork I get so emotional (karaoke version) this artwork made of Single-channel SD video: 4:30 minutes, colour, sound, looped, 4:3, created in 2006-01-01
Accession No.
2020.141
Date Created
2006
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Pacific Art
Edition
ed. 1/4
Media Category
Electronic media
Secondary Media Category
SD video
Medium
Single-channel SD video: 4:30 minutes, colour, sound, looped, 4:3
Place Created
Melbourne and Sydney, Australia; Yogyakarta, Indonesia Australia
Credit Line
Purchased 2020 with funds from the Bequest of Jennifer Taylor through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

I get so emotional finds Tawale performing as various musical stereotypes while singing the lyrics of Whitney Houston’s ‘I get so emotional’. Tawale unravels the fantasy Houston represents — of ‘making it’ as an icon of contemporary black, female identity — through her humorous cover of this song, playing out the complex shifts in character and circumstance that this requires. Speaking of the important role that pop music plays in her work, Tawale says:

A pop song is so in line with how you feel about something but also at the same time a total fantasy.
 

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