Nancy Paterson
b. 1957 Toronto, Ontario

Stock Market Skirt 1998
Internet-based interactive installation

The hemline of a gaudy 80s prom dress quivers and rises or falls based on the fluctuations of the Dow Jones stock market. This work literalizes the relationship between women’s fashion and the capitalist economy, pointing to the undercurrents of desire and pleasure in economical analysis, cause and effect of social and economic trends.