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Wisdom
"Wisdom" is one third of the three-channel video installation, "Primer" I exhibited at the Front Gallery from May 8th-June 6th, 2010. With my most recent work, I have been researching and exposing tactics of corporate television advertising that are, for the most part, culturally degenerative memes overlooked by the general public. I create a skeleton commercial built from the tone, cadence, verbal and graphic illusions that comprise a corporate propaganda campaign. I then fill the shell with my own agenda, which is to reveal that the form itself is psychologically manipulative. I infuse them with my own contemporary style and present them as a seamless loop, which translates them from a parasitic corporate language to one of viewer empowerment. I have a great time making and showing these. They make me laugh and they are intended to make the viewer laugh when they have a realization of their own. I want people to understand without insulting their intelligence. Many people ask me if I am "being serious or not" with my work. To me, everything I make is intended as a joke of some sort, but laughing and understanding are synonymous to me. a video installation by Dave Greber TV Boxes Roel Miranda Dave Greber Starring Camilla Bergin Andy Cook Tessa Corthell Stephen Kennedy Roel Miranda JJ Smith Robert Ries Jen DeGregorio Valorie Polmer Lea Downing Alden Eagle Katie Gelfand Matthew Holdren Brandon Meginley Phil Rached Asst. Director Katie Gelfand Camera Dave Greber Phil Rached Music Peter Leonard Kevin MacLeod (less info) View comments, related videos, and more
I'm Excited (2010)
featuring contributions from Brandon Meginley, Katie Gelfand, Kelci Baughman-McDowell, Colin Bean and Dino Pouranarus
I'm Excited is a reality-show purgatory where lost souls are perpetually reliving their meaningless, ego-driven existence.
A nine minute video-loop appears to chronicle “the making of” the installation the viewer is standing inside. The video itself has no beginning or end, it features the essence of a reality show: minimal content inflated to the point of absurdity. The five featured players seek to relive and understand the superficial feelings they experienced while working on the sculpture they call “TV Man.” They are acutely aware of one another’s concerns, as if they are important above all else, and analyze them extensively. There is a repetitive harmony in their observations as they cycle through reflections of excitement, hunger, nervousness, and happiness during the construction process.
On another screen, a group walks into a house and is surprised by their cheering friends . They have an emotional reunion, leave the house the way they came in, turn around at the sidewalk and walk right back in the house again. For eternity. They are the 21st Century Sisyphus, forever pushing the boulder up the mountain for their deception.
