July 4, 2019

2019. Video. Runtime: 2:46.

“Donald Trump put me in your military parade.”

July 4, 2019 was created on that date, at the same time that Donald Trump was holding his misbegotten military parade eleven hundred miles away. While I failed to convince the parade planners that I should be included, I did record this “audition tape” to showcase the routine I hoped to perform in the parade. I employ an over-abundance of American symbols (a John Phillps Sousa march, hot dogs, beer, a flatbed truck, a trailer park, and bountiful American flags) for a striptease that ends with the artist embodying Trump’s favorite dehumanizing insult, a dog. The video is intended as a critique of a culture that celebrates humiliation and degradation as a means to power.

Exhibition History

Long Distance R.A.D.A.R., Season 1 Episode 3.