In this peice Bernadette Corporation utilized two flatscreen televesions in the language of painting. The images displayed on the screen seem to be of official monitor of an underwater oil spill. This content relates clearly to the remix and appropriation dialogue, in that the meaning of this photage, presumably originally released as objective documentation of a factual event, becomes conceptually activated in the new presentation. The title The Earth’s Tarry Dreams of Insurrection Against the Sun, also goes a long way in transforming the meaning of the source content. There is a definitive symbolic ecological narrative imposed on the work, transitioning the content out of the realm of objectivity and diving head on into allegory.
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