Mall Me, 1997

Mall Me was a year long collaboration which resulted in a 10 min. video and an installation at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle. I collaborated with Jennifer Davy and Sandra Congdon. It was commissioned by COCA for a show called Nirvana, Capitalism and the Consumed Image.

The spectacle is a permanent opium war waged to make it impossible to distinguish goods from commodities, or true satisfaction from a survival that increases according to its own logic. Consumable survival must increase, in fact, because it continues to enshrine deprivation. The reason there is nothing beyond augmented survival, and no end to its growth, is that survival itself belongs to the realm of dispossession: it may gild poverty, but it cannot transcend it.
From the Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord