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2025•7m•Documentary

"We're gonna take a break for a little Gay Capitalism. We'll be right back."

A continuously running two-channel installation, presented on 9" and 25" CRT monitors atop pedestals and overlooked by a green Kit-Cat clock. The smaller CRT bears a painted green square and is framed by a pair of crossed silver opera gloves, at whose intersection rests a vintage push-puppet of two boxers sharing a single red stand. Together, the two monitors display distinct video collages interweaving footage from Emerald Square Mall and the strike during its 1989 construction with remixed interferences from Channel J's Emerald City TV (1976–1979), Huge Video's Heat in the Night (1989), Genet's Un Chant d'Amour (1950), various cigarette commercials, The Wizard of Oz (1939), and a performance of a mylar-clad entity wrapping one of the televisions in videotape. The work has most frequently circulated publicly through its primary video channel.

Andrew Burke · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime7m
LanguageEN
Release DateJul 19, 2025

Actors

Frank O'Dowd

Paul D. Fow

Brad Mitchell

Rex Chandler

Dennis James

Dennis James

Bravo

Lucien Sénémaud

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