Within vast landscapes, performers engage in consensual BDSM scenarios as erotic exploration. The video combines elements of archival family footage, digital manipulation, text and voice-over narration to interrogate social and political power, the colonialism of architecture, and the possibility of erotic transcendence in the face of gendered and racialized oppressions. Oscillations between playfulness, tender embrace and controlled impact, navigate the slippage between subversion and reinscription, liberation and retention, to retrace and broaden historical narratives around race, bodies, sex and power.
This project was funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and has screened at venues including REDCAT, Los Angeles, the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York, NY, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The project was also awarded Best Experimental Film at the New Jersey International Film Festival 2014.
full piece - 13:10.
