Alison Nguyen United States, 1986
Dessert-Disaster (installation version), 2018
HD video, Double-Channel Installation, Color, Sound
Duration: 3 minute 54 second, loop
Duration: 3 minute 54 second, loop
Edition of 3 plus 2 AP
Dessert-Disaster (Excerpt) -- A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of ‘disaster porn’ found in the news and on the Internet. The...
Dessert-Disaster (Excerpt)
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A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of ‘disaster porn’ found in the news and on the Internet. The sound, pulled from pedestrian-produced videos of demolitions, disasters, and storms, expresses the contradictions of the contemporary crowd; its insatiable appetite for destruction and arousal; its inattention, its inability to look away; its anxiety and its ecstasy.
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A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of ‘disaster porn’ found in the news and on the Internet. The sound, pulled from pedestrian-produced videos of demolitions, disasters, and storms, expresses the contradictions of the contemporary crowd; its insatiable appetite for destruction and arousal; its inattention, its inability to look away; its anxiety and its ecstasy.