The Poster Children (installation view)


Heroes of the Revolution (installation view)



The Poster Children (3 minute excerpt)


Heroes of the Revolution (3'33"). Press start on movie to play.

 

INFORMATION

The Poster Children (2007)
4 monitors, 2 custom PCs, custom housing
78 ” x 14” x 6” (approx)
9’ loop, silent
Edition of 5

Two representative groups at the top of the food chain – people and polar bears – coexist in a quiet dystopia,  pristine except for the flotsam of e-waste.

Heroes of the Revolution (2007)
4 monitors, 2 custom PCs, custom housing
78” x 14” x 6” (approx)
3’31” loop, silent
Edition of 5

As a disco remix, Heroes of the Revolution lifts the veil of ambiguity in the original Poster Children by immersing its animatronic subjects in psychedelic tropes – rainbow colors, flashing light shows, prismatic forms – and offering its panoramic tableau as a Wall Drugs display of the future.

Exhibition History:
Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier on Main, 2008
Scope Basel, 2007
Scope Miami, 2007