Pierre Yves Clouin

Collection: Getty Research Institute, Long Beach Museum of Art Contemporary Video Archive, Los Angeles, California, USA
"COWBOY is a single shot of the kneeling artist's naked thighs, butt, and scrotum from behind, centred and in triangular stance with bright sunlight spilling into the studio before him and street sounds just barely audible. The viewer wonders what the actor is doing. Curiously sunning himself, urinating while kneeling, masturbating? He manipulates his scrotum with his hands, forming a silhouette of what may be discerned as bovine teats. Here it is not a question of crossdressing but of species crossing without any sophisticated camouflage but simply the actor/artist's body, light and camera. The movement and eventual revelation of feigned teats are droll and serve well Clouin's accompanying caption for this video, "In just a lonesome cowboy with gorgeous teats." 
SHORT, QUIET AND DISTURBING ON RECENT VIDEO WORK BY PIERRE YVES CLOUIN by Ger Zielinski in Trade 2001(pierreyvesclouin.fr/items/show/121) COURT, CALME ET TROUBLANT par Ger Zielinski dans Trade 2001 (pierreyvesclouin.fr/items/show/124)
exhibitions and screenings of "Cowboy":
2001 
. carte blanche à PY Clouin, La clef, Paris, France 
. "Dragged Out: A Studied Glance at Current Radical Drag," curated by Ger Zielinski for Toronto's Pleasure Dome 
1999 
. Media Non Grata, offline@online media art festival 2nd edition, E-Media Center, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
. Videoarchaeology / Sofia-Paris Video 1, International Exhibition of Video Art, Sofia, Bulgaria 
.Reel Affirmations 9, Washington DC, USA
. MIX 999, Mexico City, Mexico 
. 13th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute, London, UK 
. Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia 
. "Life is Elsewhere," Verzaubert, Kino Im Schulz, Cologne, Germany
1998 
. 6th Mix Brasil Festival of Sexual Diversity, São Paulo, Brazil