<Sync, 2005

Three-channel video
Color, sound
01:43 min., loop

Private Collection, Houston
Collection Metronome Foundation for Contemporary Art, Barcelona

Exhibitions

Love in the USA, Louis T. Blouin Foundation, London [curated by Brooke Lynn McGowan], 2008
I Like to Watch, The Canal Chapter, New York, 2007
Sync, Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York, 2006
Sync, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, 2006
Sync, Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, 2006
Destricted, with Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Gasper Noé, Richard Prince, and Sam Taylor-Wood, 2006
Destricted, 45th International Critics’ Week, Special Screenings: Feature Films, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, 2006

Sync features three screens of densely edited film footage, each organized around a different theme—fight scenes, sex scenes, and theater audiences—all progressing at the rate of 12 shots per second. Overlaying all three is a violently percussive audio montage. The result is a new visual choreography that rapidly builds to a state of sensory overload, emphasizing how viewers develop a resistance to graphic sex and brutality, both in the movies and in the news media in general.

Reviews

Pedro Vincente Muller, ‘Destricted’, Eyemazing, Issue 04, 2006
Tom Morton, ‘ “Destriced” Round Table’, frieze, Issue 103, November/December 2006
‘Galleries–Chelsea’, The New Yorker, November 27, 2006
Gary Michael Dault, ‘The Exhilaration – and tedium – of desire’, The Globe And Mail, Saturday, September 30, 2006
Jody Zellen, ‘Marco Brambilla’, Art US, Issue 13, May-June 2006
Caroline Cardon ‘Body Language’, Art Review, January 2006
Holly Myers, ‘Walking into a Video Crossfire’, Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2006
Notes from Sundance, January 21, 2006
Chrissie Illes, ‘Film: Best of 2005’, Artforum, December 2006