The earth is spinning and we are on it
Single-channel video with sound, color
14:31
2013
A cruising ground, Henry Moore, an opportune encounter with Christopher Street Day in
the park, all facilitated by the sloppy boundaries of a body’s autonomous functions.
Many of my videos are formal exercises in the representation of simultaneity within single channel video. The promise held out by this admittedly technical pursuit is, more broadly,
the possibility of things always being other than they are. (Whether we take such a
possibility to be reminiscent of naive daydreaming, or a foundation of critical engagement
with contemporary life, whether we find it necessary to distinguish between the two, says more about us than the problem at hand.) Previous attempts at this simultaneity have
worked with strobe-like intercuts and alternating opacities. This video, on the other hand, works with the material logic of the bodies it so shoddily represents. Slow zooms are the
result of respiration effecting an Android handset resting on a bare chest; the heart rate distortions of one shot are mapped onto a roughly animated bulge on an already
voluptuous biomorphic form.
What better totem for an expanded view of cruising, already a complication of the role of intimate interactions in public space, than the material resonance of a body’s uncontrollable movements in an eight-ton bronze drowning in house music.