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The Situation (Something Other Than What You Are)
Single-channel HD video
9 minutes
2016


The Situation explores our emotional investments in emancipatory ideals, and the hidden labor of creative production. It is an illumination of the gap between artistic wish and social reality; performer and audience.

A mobile camera follows a theater worker in her examination of the vagaries of artifice and reality, script and experience. She assembles and disassembles a theatrical set as she recalls a moment of revolution and re-couperation. Language fails her, she stops, begins again. She falters, all in an attempt to describe something that eludes her grasp—the subversion of the creative act by capital.

The project was created as part of Camel Collective: Something Other Than What You Are, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, 2016, curated by Ruth Estevez.

Actor: Corey Tazmania; Director of Photography: Meena Singh; Theater Lighting Design: Tony Shayne; Producer: Chiara Giovando; Sound Recording: Andrew Storrs; Grip: Russell Bell; 1st Assistant Camera: Nadia Baptista; Video Editor: Rodrigo Cervantes Ornelas; Music and Sound Mix: Nate Harrison; Props and Installation assistance: Kevin Ford and Ian Page.