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A psychiatric hospital is turned upside down when a mysterious drifter is admitted and assigned to room 316. Known only as John Doe, the other patients believe that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus Christ.
An artist collects and processes images of their mother’s restaurant kitchen and their grandmother’s daily life, reanimating memory and embodied knowledge through various image formats: 35mm portraits on oscillating lenticular prints, laserjet prints of 35mm film transferred onto 16mm loops, and photographic prints on polystyrene. An intergenerational critique unfolds.
Through meditative recreations of classic ASMR (#iphone-destruction, #knife-cutting, #slime, #kinetic-sand, #squishies), "☞ ☞ ☞ ✰ THE MOST SATISFYING VIDEO IN THE WORLD ✰ ☁ ☁ ☁" is an experimentation in tactility and visual magic while contemplating YouTube as a site for art. How do we delineate the artistic boundaries between internet videos, video art, and film, and who is the authority on these distinctions? What content is considered mindless, therapeutic, smart, pleasureable, or artistic?
Made in response to the end of a long-term relationship with a birth control implant. Performative video & diaristic, but voiceless subtitles contemplate the feelings of loss and longing tied to a changing body. The artist ruminates on memory, cooking, passing time, and hormones, all while spatchcocking and roasting a chicken.
