In the year 2200 a nameless couple sends recorded messages into the past hoping to prevent a dystopian future. However the two begin to use the recordings to confess their struggles of sustaining a relationship amid holographic love affairs and android rivalries.
Forever People is presented through a series of phone messages that can be reached by dialing the free phone number on the ARTwall billboard. Viewers are encouraged to call the number to hear the latest installment of the story. A new audio message episode will be updated every-other-Monday and will run for nine months.
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.
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.
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.
Within the Aladdin’s Shrine’s appropriately titled “multipurpose” room was a hundred or so cartoonists with an array of eclectic tales for trade and sale. Slightly more organized than a garage sale, SPACE was a vast and seemingly aimless arrangement of comic book underground culture. Discombobulating at first,SPACE contained a nearly infinite range of genres: old-school sci-fi, adult-themed vamp action, historical romance, autobiography, anthologies, and more anthologies. It was apparent that no list could contain the event’s smorgasbord of stories. Entering SPACE early Saturday morning I found myself drawn to the event’s amateurish charm. There was Cybor (the story of a cybernetic pig),and Straw-man (a super-powered bendable straw) and Big Breasted Vampire Death (its voluptuous vampires killing people, duh). Much of this kind of genre-rehashing imitates poorly (in many cases imitates artists who are not worth imitating) but there is an obsessions in their eccentric visions that is fascinating. The art was crass and sometimes manic, likened to a bathroom wall covered with doodles of an unknown pulp hero. These cartoonists produced tales so brazen and unabashedly raw (under-cooked, not vulnerable) that were much like an enthusiastic garage band filled with so much passion, it was difficult not to stare in awe. Read more...
Narrative Developer:
a person that brings out the capabilities or possibilities of a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious to more advanced or effective state.
