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FOREVER PEOPLE
Forever People (2008)
Two meandering office co-workers contemplate and fantasize about each other and their past lives in a post-apocalyptic future. In the end it is revealed the office co-workers are not humans but androids mimicking human ennui.
Albert Burnes and Kerry Curtis stood perfectly still for over 3 hours.
Originally conceived as a performance/installation, Forever People was exhibited with live actors. The actors stood perfectly still for over 3 hours as their corresponding vignettes were projected above their heads, like telepathic thought-balloons filling the gallery for all to see and hear.
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BLOODSPORT REMIX
BloodSport Remix (2007)
[A] comic, postmodernist commentary on Hollywood film images and violence in sports- Kansas City Star (March 1st, 2007)
A multi-channel installation, BloodSport Remix takes as its starting point the 1988 American martial arts classic, BloodSport, staring Jean-Cluade van Damme. By re-editing the film in non-linear, spatially oriented manner cuts through the nostalgic fog to reconsider the film’s seductive elevation of violence. An adolescence machismo fantasy was to fight in the deadly and secretive tournament, the Kumite, to avenge lost honor. Later though an adult’s gaze Van Damme’s buxom, sweat-coved, screaming, flying splits appear silly or even erotic.
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TRIPLE THREAT
TRIPLE THREAT (2005)
Triple Threat, a split screen narrative, focuses on the broken relationship of an abusive schizophrenic couple as they find comfort in sex, apathy, and Batman.