2011 - 12
HD video and installation
Video duration: Three minutes, 25 seconds (looped)
Exhibited: MFA Fine Art Final Show, Goldsmiths, London, U.K., 2012.
Being Human and Having Good Taste is a double-channel installation. It affectively considers the 2011 riots within several frameworks, including the fable of the death of the jewel-encrusted tortoise in the decadent novel Against Nature (Huysmans, 1884). The Maquech beetle (popular in 1960s London and contemporary Mexico) drags its bejewelled body over a digital drawn stack of items looted during the riots. The items (which includes a pot of Utterly Butterly and a violin) show the disparate aspirations which were looted.
Slideshow of stills from video
This work has been installed in two different ways, please see the installation images below:
Image: Installation version 1: MFA Fine Art Final Show, Goldsmiths, 2012.
Image: Installation version 1: MFA Fine Art Final Show, Goldsmiths, 2012.
Image: Installation version 2: Goldsmiths studios, 2011.
Image: Installation version 2: Goldsmiths studios, 2011.
Image: Installation version 2: Goldsmiths studios, 2011.
Image: Installation version 2: Goldsmiths studios, 2011.
Choterina Freer