To the pleasure of the screen
I wrap you around
pouring myself into you
Red, green, and blue
your pixelated construction
mirrors how I see
May devotion guide me while
Entranced to the flames
not through immersion in representation
but in meaning and connection
May I honor
clarity of communion
and find grace
beyond the rectangle
Easy To Let The Devil InRole: Site specific Multimedia Installation and Performance Artist
Date: Jan 12-20th 2024
Duration: 9 days, performances every 15 minutes
Date: Jan 12-20th 2024
Duration: 9 days, performances every 15 minutes
Materials:
Single channel HD color video with stereo sound, PA speakers, projector, neon lighting, microcomputers, acrylic, posters, steel bench, concession stand, popcorn machine, tickets, brochures, candles, two performers.
Exhibition Statement:
EASY TO LET THE DEVIL IN, is an immersive installation deployed to sensitize visitors to the pleasures and pains of audiovisual experiences. To monetize human bodies, we use screens that conflate the human visual system with technologically mediated images that presuppose our desires and fears, sense of time, and our perceptions of self and each other (Virilio). Through the ceremony and architecture of cinema, my intentions are to deconstruct the moving image and to reveal reality and embodiment as another layer of constructed experience (Borges, Baudrillard).
Virilio, Paul. War and Cinema. Verso/New Left Books, 1989.
Borges, Jorge Luis. “On Exactitude in Science.” Ficciones, edited by Anthony Kerrigan, Grove Press, 1994.
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Single channel HD color video with stereo sound, PA speakers, projector, neon lighting, microcomputers, acrylic, posters, steel bench, concession stand, popcorn machine, tickets, brochures, candles, two performers.
Exhibition Statement:
EASY TO LET THE DEVIL IN, is an immersive installation deployed to sensitize visitors to the pleasures and pains of audiovisual experiences. To monetize human bodies, we use screens that conflate the human visual system with technologically mediated images that presuppose our desires and fears, sense of time, and our perceptions of self and each other (Virilio). Through the ceremony and architecture of cinema, my intentions are to deconstruct the moving image and to reveal reality and embodiment as another layer of constructed experience (Borges, Baudrillard).
Virilio, Paul. War and Cinema. Verso/New Left Books, 1989.
Borges, Jorge Luis. “On Exactitude in Science.” Ficciones, edited by Anthony Kerrigan, Grove Press, 1994.
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. University of Michigan Press, 1994.
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