Birthed from the surreal world of sex-apps and craigslist, NSA PLAY is a crude nightmare culled from such disparate sources as children’s television programming, snuff films and Eraserhead (1977). Bucking the Freudian paradigm, the film’s meaning lies entirely in the manifest content, its surface depiction; there is no underlying commentary, rather, the experience of watching the film is what it is. Meant to shock, provoke, titillate, humor, or merely entertain, NSA PLAY is a synthetic Saturnalia that can be interpreted in any way the viewer desires. The throughline of the work is a synthetic, artificial sexual experience: bodies, color, motion, sequence, ideas, and tears--they are all contrived in origin, programmed and inorganic. The work is literal play, ostensibly sinister, but actually a lighthearted experiment. It is comedic sexual activity recast, mutated, problematized and colorized.
Exhibited at Green Dream, February 8, 2014, kijidome, Boston, MA
Exhibited at Green Dream, February 8, 2014, kijidome, Boston, MA
2017 | I.B.E.
