The Almost Black of Her Hair, 11.30, digital video, 2007
This piece screened at the 2007 Up-and-Coming Festival, Hannover, Germany.
In someone's version of four missing days, the aliens
Snorfled her up to their hovering mother ship
In a fingersnap; undid the outermost layer of her skin
With the ease of rubbing adhesive off of a price sticker;
Rearranged a few organs, temporarily;
Invasively probed, and studied her
Most intimate throbs and flows; replaced the skin,
Which fit as perfectly as ever; and then returned her
(Naked)...
-Albert Goldbarth, Into That Story