Math Bass

An aspiring author is offered the chance to be the front person for a literary hoax and discovers a far worse fate than rejection.

Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social networking web sites, YouTube, John Waters, and Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and then turns them upside down and inside out to create an entirely singular video genre. In I-BE AREA, Trecartin intertwines the stories of an incredible ensemble cast to follow a day in the life of I-BE II, the rebellious clone of I-BE.

Both an embrace and deviation of Barbara Hammer’s 1974 film, Dyketactics. This work is a pure corporeal expression of bodies interacting, mingling, touching.