extreme sport, 2002
A set of aluminum bleachers (one unit of tiered seating available to rent for public events) is placed within the gallery space providing spectators with familiar, yet out of place seating (where they ultimately became part of the work to be viewed). The bleachers also read as a sign, rendering the gallery space an arena similar to that of competitive sports, playfully pointing to the emulous aspects of the art world. While seated, the audience watches a video (on a 5” sports monitor) of a woman in numbered t-shirt glue gunning a house of cards together — cheating at a solitary activity. Echoing the performative one-shot videos of the 70’s, extreme sport utilizes the everyday object of the glue gun to transform a Distopic metaphor — the ‘house of cards’ is now (somewhat) stable.
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extreme sport, 2002
aluminum bleachers, 5" LCD monitor on mini-tripod, DVD.
Single channel title: my heart the realtor