Dump Queen
goldiechiari's work Dump Queen consists of a video and a series of<br />pictures produced in 2007-8. The subject is a performance by Swedish dancer,<br />Lotta Melin as she reinterprets artist Carmen Miranda (originally from 1941<br />movie, One Night in Rio) in the Guidonia dump, which lies on the outskirts<br />of Rome, Italy.<br />Mountains of garbage accumulate at this site and seagulls crowd the sky.<br />Miranda appears to sing and dance the song Chica<br />Chica Boom Chic.<br />In Dump Queen video and photographs, Miranda represents a "tropical and<br />exotic" divinity of abundance, enacting a light-hearted and mad dance in the<br />context of decadence, ruin and abjection.<br />"In the dump's squalid phantasmagoria, the same commodities that had been<br />fetishized by advertising, dynamized by montage, and haloed through<br />backlighting, are now stripped of their aura of charismatic power. […]<br />Miranda dances as if to perform a ceremony of removal; unconscious of the<br />waste, ignoring the decay around her.