9 channel Video Installation for 9 vertical flat screens on 3 walls, 2008, 7 min. Synopsis: Deadly Storms 333, is a 9 channel video installation designed for 9 vertical flat screen monitors. Taking the format of breaking news broadcasts, borrowing…
Tag: ornament
DEADLY STORMS
3 channel video installation on 3 vertical plasma or LCD screens, 42″ (minimum size) 7’00 min. loop, 2008 Synopsis: DEADLY STORMS is based on appropriated audio footage from the US American news network FOX NEWS. During the last 10 years…
STILL MEN OUT THERE
6 channel (synchronized) installation for 18 TVs, 10min, loop, 2003 Synopsis: Composed of eighteen television monitors, installed on the floor in three groups of six facing the ceiling, Still Men Out There uses a combination of audio and light color fields to…
THE ORAL THING
Single Channel Video, 2001, 8 min., loop (for screening or installation) Synopsis: The Oral Thing casts the TV host as evangelist. Descending as if from heaven he enters down a staircase to preside over two sisters cast as TV chat show…
Tagged with: believe, choir, ornament, public/private, sensationalism, spectacle, talk show, teleevangelism, truth, tv
AGAIN AND AGAIN
Installation for 8 Monitors, Video, 8 min loop, 1998 Synopsis: In the video installation “Again & Again” Melhus tells—not without humor—the story of a person engaged in an inner dialogue on the subject of reproduction, only to be rejected by…
NO SUNSHINE
Video, 1997, 6 min., loop (for installation) 6’15 min. with titles for screening Synopsis: Depicting pairs of infantile doppelgängers floating in a space that evokes their own interior world, NO SUNSHINE is a tragicomedy that explores the images—or rather the…
Tagged with: childhood, denial, music video, ornament, pop, repetition, reproduction, twins, virus, war
BLUE MOON
Single Channel Video, 4 min., 1997 Double channel video/ installation, 4 min., 1997 Synopsis: “Mickey went to Europe, the Smurf went to America … this is called cultural exchange.” (BLUE MOON) A Smurf, alone in the Californian desert, is humming…