Louise Noguchi
  • Language of the Rope
    • Crack
    • Rope Tricks
    • When You Fall Off Your Horse
    • Study/Sketch
    • Black Maria
    • Gun Play
    • Document
    • Luvgunrung
    • Broncos and Bucking Bulls
  • Gun & Knife Skills
    • Complilation Portraits
    • The Unnameable Is the Eternally Real
    • destiny/destination
    • Shanghai Dragon
    • Holes in my fence
  • Rodeos
    • somewhere
    • Il Momento LV
    • Snake's Shadow
    • Marker
    • Searchers
    • Tapiola Garden City
  • The Hunt | 70s-early 90s
    • Dissolving Thoughts From a Camera Obscura
    • Three Dreams
    • Hemorrhaging Dream & The Hunt
    • Hunters, They Can Kill
    • Denis Lortie, May 1984
    • Evidence
    • Eden II
  • Catalogues
  • About
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Rope Tricks
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1998
Duration: 6:24 looped video

This work documents my performance of trying to lasso objects with a lariat. What I am trying to capture is left a mystery. The video is edited in slow motion with a close-up of my face going in and out of the frame. My voice is also in slow motion, and is heard as a deep roar when I temporarily bend over to release the rope and leave the picture frame, giving an impression this may not be my voice, but that of another -- perhaps the object of capture

Rope Tricks, is part of the Language of the Rope Series (1998-2005), which stemmed from my lessons in trick-roping, bull-whip cracking, knife-throwing and trick riding. Videos in this series include Crack, Rope Tricks, When You Fall Off Your Horse and Study/Sketch.
Language of the Rope
Gun & Knife Skills
Rodeos
The Hunt (older works)
Catalogues
Contact
  • Language of the Rope
    • Crack
    • Rope Tricks
    • When You Fall Off Your Horse
    • Study/Sketch
    • Black Maria
    • Gun Play
    • Document
    • Luvgunrung
    • Broncos and Bucking Bulls
  • Gun & Knife Skills
    • Complilation Portraits
    • The Unnameable Is the Eternally Real
    • destiny/destination
    • Shanghai Dragon
    • Holes in my fence
  • Rodeos
    • somewhere
    • Il Momento LV
    • Snake's Shadow
    • Marker
    • Searchers
    • Tapiola Garden City
  • The Hunt | 70s-early 90s
    • Dissolving Thoughts From a Camera Obscura
    • Three Dreams
    • Hemorrhaging Dream & The Hunt
    • Hunters, They Can Kill
    • Denis Lortie, May 1984
    • Evidence
    • Eden II
  • Catalogues
  • About
  • Link Page