2003, 8 min, color, sound
Trecartin and his collaborator/co-star Lizzie Fitch ponder the messages delivered by the most banal forms of mass media and pop culture in their own unique version of a music video. They voice questions in song and dance segments that feature a deliberately ill-fitting pastiche of discarded fashions of the past two decades and recycled pop-music cliches. Totally immersed in their meticulously crafted private universe, Trecartin and Fitch coyly point at the gaudy artifice surrounding us in our own.
Lizzie, Ryan.
-- Electronic Arts Intermix
© Ryan Trecartin, Courtesy of the Artist, Regen Projects and Sprüth Magers
Used with kind permission of Regen Projects, LA and Sprüth Magers
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