The Future Will Eat Itself (2009-10) silent video installation
The Future Will Eat Itself is a slow-motion, pixelated portrait of an anonymous young woman who continuously dissolves and reassembles, smiling and laughing in slow-motion as she consumes cheesecake dainties on one hand and raw dandelions on the other. The camera's close focus on her mouth offers a tender, sensual intimacy on one hand, and enlarges the girl's pleasured grins into grotesque scenes of violent and indifferent consumption on the other. The dissonance between organic and digital experience is emphasized as fields of video artifacts dance across the screen and heighten the artificiality of the pixelated image. This work is currently being developed as a video installation for multiple projecters that will be debuted as part of the Plants and Machines exhibition curated by Evan Tyler which will tour Saskatchewan in 2010-2011.
