Dead Meat – Fiction/Installation – 10min34sec – 2010

          

https://platformgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2009_insearchofdesire.pdf

Dead Meat is an absurd experimental narrative video that follows a young man’s travels into the desert while under-going an epiphametic, transformative moment. The journey is representative of a cliché rites of passage journey that has been born into our shared pop-cultural identities:  A young man following a pre-written path of discovery as deciphered from media driven pop-cultural iconography, literature, and the such.  However, as the entire journey is constructed out of miniatures, photo backdrops and low-fi blue screens, the trip is flung into the fantastically bizarre and ridiculous.  And as such, the work asks the viewer to consider how much of ourselves or the how much of our personal identities and experiences can we consider legitimate.  And as we choose to gravitate to certain socio-psychological identifiers, our separate realities are informed not only in the way we experience through our separate identifying filters, but also in how we seek out experiences that conform to the potentials of our chosen identities.

This project is part of series of projects under the title In Search of Desire. This new series is rooted in my previous conceptual interests but moves towards investigations regarding the existential quandaries that envelope consciousness.  Teenage Wasteland, The Ratspectacla, and Dead Meat are the works that have been touring under In Search of Desire.

Starring Nathan Young
Directed by Clark Ferguson
Camera and Edit by Clark Ferguson
Location Sound and Score by Gilles Zolty
Puppetry by Ian Campbell, Nathan Young, Gilles Zolty, Biliana Velkova and Quill Shields.