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Traffic #3: In the Cardiac Ward

This project depicts the artists watching George Lucas's "American Graffiti" from a hospital room. In the Traffic series, the experience of watching a film is collapsed into the text of the film itself.

Installation with video projection

2004

Each of these tabletop miniature kinetic sculptures involves two linked narratives. In this one a small-scale recreation of Lucas's American Grafitti is depicted. The other is a tableau portraying the artists themselves in the act of watching the film on a hospital video monitor- a live video feed of the cinematic recreation appears on this screen. In the gallery space, a video sequence cuts back and forth between images of the artists in their viewing environment and images of the film scene they are watching.

©2024 Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

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