Musicians make cover versions as a way to pay homage to an artist who has influenced them, the song often changing in tone or meaning through recontextualization in a new idiom. In the Covers project, I perform visual covers of television and audio recordings culled from the 1950s and 1960s American cultural environment. I am interested in accentuating the obvious inauthenticity of the event in order to highlight the constructed reality of what we see, exploring questions of truthfulness in visual representation. Some of these pieces may be taken as an homage and some come more out of a desire to insert myself into an historical moment, to create a chronologic echo.
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Despite the Fact, (Allen Ginsberg)
2006, color video, total time: 5;45
All the People Dreaming, (Jack Kerouac)
2006, color video, total time: 3;34
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Never Had More Troubles, (Merv Griffin & Richard Nixon)
2007, 2-channel color video, total time: 2;00
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Who I Am, (Richard Alpert)
2008, color, total time: 4;00
