FANTASY VISION MEDITATION (MEGAMIX), 2008
FANTASY VISION MEDITATION (MEGAMIX), 2008, DV, 15:23
Structured as a continuous mix of videos from a series investigating the parallel historical narratives of disco, gay liberation movements and AIDS. A phantasmagoric elegy for the fallen soldiers in the hidden cultural wars of the 70s and 80s by transforming two sources generally dismissed as vapid and disposable –the musical collaboration between disco singer Sylvester James (a victim of AIDS) and producer Patrick Cowley (who succumbed to AIDS less than three months after the disease was codified) and A Night At Halsted’s by queer porn auteur Fred Halsted (who overdosed on sleeping pills after the death of his lover from AIDS)– that helped definie the culture of the era. A labor-intensive digital exegesis of the unconscious spiritual elements hidden in the originals.
