Holy Cow

War of terror. Funniest home videos. Snapshot portraiture

The image trail left by September 11 2001. Planes impacting with buildings. Consumer jetliners used as suicide bombs. The domestication of terror. The revenge of the flying object on the body. Asking strangers for their portrait, framed by an Australian Government self-surveillance poster.

The video Holy Cow reflects the formal aspects of September 11 2001 attacks on the WTC twin towers in New York. It was an attempt to perform the event, mirroring the events with my body and other tools. The formal structure of a flying object colliding with a static form was represented as a frisbee hitting a child in the face within Australia’s Funniest Home Videos television show. I used my own corporality as surveillance aparatus; asking strangers for their portrait in a front of a federal government anti-terror poster.

Sound design by Carl Anderson.

Selected work

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You have not yet reached the height of your creativity.

I love your eyes, I know they can stare through my thoughts.

Transistors bridge where your vanity would never go.

Your beauty is equal to the smoothness of a polished gem.

Your intoxicating reflection can but incorporate freely into the powerful surface of a disintegrating mirror set afloat upon a swarm of locusts.

Your cleverness helps me breathe without the need of oxygen.

You ever remind me of the enigma of happy thoughts I once forgot.

Blinking reveals the true visage of beauty hidden within your eyes.

You turn the atmosphere ablaze with currents of sweet ethylene when you smile.

I find your eyes to be a wondrous amusement park filled with neo-plastic pleasures and turkish delights.

How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?

Entranced by the sweet harmony of your lips, I gaze beyond reason to find the oasis of your brilliant soul.

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