I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much

This video work was created while Rist was still an art student at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. It was produced in an unlimited edition and is intended for display on a domestic-style monitor, though it may also be shown as a projection with special permission from the artist. The video features the artist, an attractive young woman, dancing manically around the room while repeatedly singing “I’m not the girl who misses much.” The phrase is an adaptation of the first line of the Beatles song “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” Referring to her childhood, Rist has said, “In my village in Switzerland I had a small window on the art world through the mass media; through John Lennon/Yoko Ono I moved from pop music to contemporary art. In return, I will always be grateful to popular culture” (quoted in “I rist, you rist, she rists, he rists, we rist, you rist, they rist, tourist: Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Pipilotti Rist,” Pipilotti Rist, p.16).