Andrew Burke

A continuously running installation of two video monitors on pedestals, overlooked by a green Kit-Cat clock. A 9" and a 13" CRT display two different video collages of footage from the Emerald Square Mall and the strike during its 1989 construction with remixed interferences of Channel J's Emerald City TV (1976-1979): the self-proclaimed "world’s first television show for gay men and women", 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 up one of the televisions in videotape.

The wormhole connections in the time-space continuum. (Drawing from Klein 1982, 12)

The life cycle of a failed creative idea.

A rerouted Ricky Raccoon Shows the Way (1978) drifts through suburban daylight like a half-remembered lesson.

Entranced by the preternatural light of the phosphorescent screen, a sentient amalgam of trash smokes a cigarette and flips through television channels.

Revisitation of tapes from a 1990 ski trip through a fractured and lysergic prism.

Streaks, scratches, veins of fractured light, and granular constellations rush across the 8mm frame in rapid succession. The image occasionally drifts toward recognition, sometimes touching it for an instant before receding again. More often, it exists in a state prior to naming.

The fragile ghost of a 1936 8mm film stops, starts, and derails.