ROY G BIV
2022
HD Digital video, 1 hour
2022
HD Digital video, 1 hour
I composed the musical score for Alex Da Corte's 2022 ROY G BIV, a film created for the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept.
Description from the Whitney’s site: The video projected onto the cube recreates a gallery in the Philadelphia Museum of Art—the artist’s hometown museum—that houses sculptures by Constantin Brancusi. Da Corte plays four characters in the video: the artist Marcel Duchamp; Duchamp’s female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy; Duchamp dressed as the Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 film Batman; and one of two figures in Brancusi’s sculpture The Kiss (1916), who comes to life via stop-motion animation. The accumulation of color and eventual emancipation of The Kiss is central to this story of love, loss, and transformation.
Description from the Whitney’s site: The video projected onto the cube recreates a gallery in the Philadelphia Museum of Art—the artist’s hometown museum—that houses sculptures by Constantin Brancusi. Da Corte plays four characters in the video: the artist Marcel Duchamp; Duchamp’s female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy; Duchamp dressed as the Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 film Batman; and one of two figures in Brancusi’s sculpture The Kiss (1916), who comes to life via stop-motion animation. The accumulation of color and eventual emancipation of The Kiss is central to this story of love, loss, and transformation.
ROY G BIV, Whitney Biennial 2022, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, installation views