May 27, 2004
Lines I wish I wrote, #1
My Los Angeles-based colleague and art nerd reading group partner Michael Ned Holte writes, in a review of a young artist's video show at Black Dragon Society: "The monitors are mounted on a skeletal wooden cube and face inward, outward, or upward, creating a complex spatial and temporal arrangement. The individual channels reveal Haskard's obsessions with tubes, funnels, food, and liquids—all chosen with an eye for intense color—and evoke bodily processes of eating, shitting, and everything in between. Mining this territory, Haskard frequently employs vertiginous footage shot by a video camera strapped to his head. The hide-and-seek juxtaposition of images induces a delirious primal confusion between interior and exterior: Attempting to digest the whole installation would be as preposterous as climbing into one's own asshole."
("Lines" idea borrowed from TMFTML.)