Artworks
Abject Apology : August 2001 : Performed by an Airline
Attendant to Placate Air Rage, 2005 
2.56 min
single channel video
Abject Apology : August 2001 : Performed by an Airline
Attendant to Placate Air Rage, arises from a reported case of air rage
when a Japanese flight attendant spilled whiskey on a passenger’s shirt on
an international flight from Tokyo. The passenger demanded that the
flight attendant crawl the length of the plane gangway in apology. The
work focuses on the performed apology and the abasement of self that
was required from the airline flight attendant. In the video a mechanised
‘baby’ doll in a flight attendant uniform, crawls across the carpet. The
groan of the mechanism provides the sound track for the re-enactment of
the flight attendant’s physical shaming and domination by the passenger.
The use of a doll reinforces the flight attendant’s complete
subjectification to the passenger.
