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.
Previous episodes will be archived at this site when the new one goes live.
Voice acting by Rhiannon Birdsall and Albert Burnes.
Forever People was commissioned by Art in the Loop and is presented on their ARTwall located at 13th and Grand, Kansas City, MO, 64016.
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.
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.