The Tenor and the Vehicle
(1996)
Video. Also title of MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax.
Materials: emergency blankets (silver mylar), fans, video projection (stills above).
Excerpt of video appears on the Metal God cdrom.
The Tenor and the Vehicle
(1996)
Video. Also title of MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax.
Materials: emergency blankets (silver mylar), fans, video projection (stills above).
Excerpt of video appears on the Metal God cdrom.
A two sided-headed beast looms. You can guess. How to present doubt. “Many people have a tree planted in their heads, but the brain itself is much more like grass.” My ears hurt. Turn them off. Where the hell is my dictionary? I want no part of it. A series of synoptic lives. Not a movie. Remote, deprived and exhausted. Seemingly peripatetic (no relation to homeopathetic). Don’t forget incontinence.
Fiction stems from retracing the steps first missed, from forgotten promises, from empty excitements, from living blah. I want everything. Doubt the present. Hurt my ears. “Be fast, even while standing still.” Through the backdoor we circle our way back in to the questioning. Ultimately a catachresis. But windy.