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Monument for Juanita: Candy Is the Sun
2012

Sight specific video, presented on the LED surface of Dallas' Omni Hotel as part of the 25th Dallas VideoFest's much lauded "Expanded Cinema" program. The buildings surface was temporarily transformed into a moving monument for Dallas first lady: Juanita Dale Slusher (aka Candy Barr), the exotic dancer who performed very close to the site of the hotel at Abe Weinstein's Colony Club.

 

Candy Barr would say that the moments when she was dancing were the times she felt the freest. This monument, if only for a few minutes, sought to give her back this freedom while setting her image prominantly among the lights of Dallas, a city that both abused her and made her an underground star.

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