"In 1973, with Eleanor Coppola, she created one of the first-ever installations outside a gallery setting, The Dante Hotel, for which each artist rented a hotel room which they furnished with a miscellany of objects. The objects in Hershman's room evoked traces left by previous occupants and by visitors, who could re-create fragments of fictional lives. Here Hershman was interested in the multiple strata of life contained by a place or site in a given socioeconomic environment. From then on, her work was characterized by such elements as the use of masks and personae to explore "identity, reality and truth." (1) As early as 1972, a work titled Self-Portrait as Another Person revealed her interests in masquerade and in the persona, so central to her work."
from this site http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=168
The undeniable influence of Lynn Hershman's Dante Hotel on the ap-ART-ment. Go to the link above to read synopses of Hershman's other work also.
ap-art-ment is Cathy Fairbanks and Laura Boles Faw
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