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1624143

Emerald ▣

""We're gonna take a break for a little Gay Capitalism. We'll be right back.""

2025-07-19 en 7m
Documentary
A continuously running two-channel installation, presented on 9" and 13" CRT monitors atop pedestals and overlooked by a green Kit-Cat clock. The smaller CRT bears a painted green square and is framed by a pair of crossed silver opera gloves, at whose intersection rests a vintage push-puppet of two boxers sharing a single red stand. Together, the two monitors display distinct video collages interweaving footage from Emerald Square Mall and the strike during its 1989 construction with remixed interferences from Channel J's Emerald City TV (1976–1979), Huge Video's Heat in the Night (1989), Genet's Un Chant d'Amour (1950), various cigarette commercials, The Wizard of Oz (1939), and a performance of a mylar-clad entity wrapping one of the televisions in videotape. The work has most frequently circulated publicly through its primary video channel.

Director

Andrew Burke

Editor

Andrew Burke

Camera Operator

Andrew Burke

Production Design

Andrew Burke

lgbt video art experimental cigarettes capitalism critique

Status

Released

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