Silkscreen Tests, 4:30 min, 2012
“Silkscreen Tests” is a document of the process ofcreating a series of experiments with screenprinted moving images.The piece brings together appropriated footage, filmed composites and 3D animation which form an estranged syntax. Over 1,500 frames were then screen-printed, scanned, and re-sequenced, resulting in a gritty, lo-fi aesthetic, unique to this process, and reminiscent of the earliest experiments with film.
softly through the night
2011, low-8 performance documentation, 0:47 (Colour, Stereo)
softly through the night features Enns with his arms tied behind his naked torso, dragging himself over 5kg of marshmallows.
A World Assembled
A World Assembled represents Toby Tatum’s creation of an improbable realm, stitched together from a kit of warring elements into a fantastic whole.
The Green Mind
Enter The Green Mind, where lizards pose in secret grottoes, bats circle twilit jungles and snakes entwine amongst flowers.
GWC, Investigators is a paranormal investigations team founded by artists Daniel J Glendening, Michael Welsh and Sean Joseph Patrick Carney. In the Fall of 2013, as part of High Desert Test Sites HDTS 2013 programming, the team embarked on their first field investigation: a look into the notorious UFO abduction of Travis Walton at Turkey Springs, Arizona.
Here is an early look at that investigation.
A recently deceased opossum makes his one phone call. Short film includes complete recipe for stuffed opossum.
SAPPHIRE & STEEL
2012
20 YouTube Videos & 1 set of seventeen 12-minute BetaMax Video Cassettes
SAPPHIRE & STEEL is NIGHTMARE CITY’s remake of an episode of the late 70s/early 80s British sci-fi/fantasy cult show Sapphire and Steel. Looking backwards and forwards through time, the remake layers a range of video technologies and means of reproduction from an analogue 1960s-era broadcast tv camera to the currently ubiquitous YouTube UI to obsolete BetaMax cassettes. The narrative is re-enacted by a group amateur actors who interchangeably represent the titular characters: two inter-dimensional time detectives. NIGHTMARE CITY portrays the remaining two characters simultaneously through a composite identity created in post-production. Layering footage of each of the Nightmares, ill-formed chimeric characters depict quixotic notions and misuse of time, space, technology, spiritualism and the supernatural — all while the re-made footage stutters, struggling to remain in-sync with the original audio track from the show.
“Accumulated Body is a collection of videos from my father’s childhood growing up in Texas, narrated by my father. Originally shot on film during the idealized golden age of America, the film has since been converted to VHS with the originals discarded. This footage is combined with documentary video of the destruction of my personal documents from birth to my 25th birthday, for the purpose of turning the recycled paper into a sculpture for burning. Accumulated Body is about cyclical parallels, losing a sense of the present, and the inevitable degradation of history by the stream time.” -E.AR
Runnel is a live-stream broadcast from a network of tunnels built in the artist’s studio. Set in the post-human future, the tunneling system for (highly evolved) small mammals provides underground links to above ground nurseries for telekinetic yucca plants. The mammals are tasked with caring for the plants as they build out a culture from pre-apocalyptic human detritus. Factions of mustelids organize based not on species but on material relationships (freegans [made from cardboard] vs. furries) will create and resolve conflict. The video will slip among perspectives towards narrative, exploring tropes from the history of cinema and television including task oriented documentation resembling sports coverage; POV pans and tracks over and around the set; explorations of the relationship between architectural form and the screen; and experimentation with the illusory nature of the traditional form. Task will include the constant flow of mustelids and of detritus through the space, costuming the actors for participation, covering a costumed weasels in comic books and magazine pages in the weasel tattoo parlor, wallpapering weasel apartments, and other daily activities in the life of evolved mustelids. Runnel slips between an examination of the space of the action, the document of the making of the narrative/proscenium television program, and the narrative program itself.