NIRVANA, video,
6 mins 2002. D/GB
In Nirvana the sterile environment of a night time public authority building
provides the stage for a surreal encounter between three people. As Szuper Gallery’s
electro-pop plays, a woman taps the high heels of her boot against a closed
door. Dressed in a pink shirt and striped tie a young man slumps pensively to
the floor. Two women crawl on all fours across the blue linoleum of the office
floor. Formal office relations explode in a display of flailing limbs. The cliché
of the red lipped office vamp is pushed to its limits as, legs spread, a woman
in fish net stockings rolls seductively against the wall. The stifling environment
of the immigration office is transformed into a libertarian playground. A beguiling
take upon arts potential relation with corporate structures.
(Mark Beasley)