Vidi Vici Narrative and the death of desire

If the intersection of desire and authority is phallus the intersection of absence and vigilance is vagina The tapes laconic title I saw I conqueredbut I didnt come encodes its vaginal pretense In effect Vidi Vici is a male artist exploring a vaginal posture By interleafing different gender characterizations with various narrative impulses it circumvents linearity while emptying our gaze into the interstices between action and incapacity Tony Conrad