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The Japanese didn't think
much of me at first, and they
never liked my films,
2011
Video componet, 8:37

An aging Japanese filmmaker recounts the rise and fall of his career.

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The One Certainty
2011
Video component, 1:36

When my girlfriend tells me I'm hot...
The sonnet describes a relationship based on a polite fiction.
(Sonnet 138, Shakespeare)
The song is at once the lament of an isolated youth, and that of an aging man isolated from his youth. (Creep, Radiohead)

Ritual Prototypes
for the Afterlife
(An interview with King Tut)
2009
Video component, 13:49

19 year old Tutankhamun began his afterlife in 1967. As he approches retirement age he wonders if there is life after the afterlife.

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The Libido Wears a
Blue Tuxedo
2009
Video component, 3:46

Courting rituals and the trappings of romance reflect the competence with which a society controls its raw sexual urges. Valentine’s Day is the annual audit of the program.
This installation is an allegorical first date in which cultural tropes and clichés have subsumed honest human sentiment. Here, love is an apparition fluxing between pretty and grotesque, innocent and obscene, silly and creepy.

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LipSync
2004
Video performance, 4:29

 

You know how you get a stupid song stuck in your head and can't shake it? This is worse.

Pioneers of Performance
2004
Video, 2:41

Tonight's episode explores another sketchy artist doing edgy things.
Sexy Boy
2010
Video, 4:30
Jack and his entourage dance their way through Manhattan, synced to the uncanny beat of his internal metronome.
Remote Control Killer Bulldozer
2007
Video, 3:55

Once caught in the headlights of this remote controled dozer, there's no escaping its satin pilow treads.