5. A Hundred Videos:
Joke (Version 2)
• “I realized that the joke is a mechanism
whereby language wraps itself around a
particular individual creating and defining this
person. A highly condensed nodal point where
webs of discourse meet to construct a subject.
And so when I present this joke to you, I am
not presenting a memory or impression of my
father, I am, rather, literally presenting you
with my actual father.”
16. What is the embodiment of desire?
What is the role of the body in
cultural revolution?
Notes de l'éditeur
The archive is key to Reinke’s practice, His work features musings on critical theory and pop songs, desires and fantasies, historical events and pornography, offering him
endless permutations of ways to make ironic but pointed juxtapositions.
Desire for sexuality and intellectualism is fundamentally the same
Language as placeholders for objects
The series overall is about making 100 videos as a young artist, his own personal growth into maturity. Worked on it from 1989 to 1996.
A piece about documentary and how we construct this notion of capturing reality without subjectivity because it illegibly bypasses the imagination or the fiction. The subject is a man dying of aids. The piece is not complete without the death of the man. It is about eluding responsibility because it is “real”
Heidegger as a provocation of compound words
Describes how the face is site of sexual pleasure. It is not human but angelic. He wishes to view all of mankinds faces while performing sexual acts on them. He wishes he could be a lump with 5 or 6 limbs, each with an articulation
Kid being beat by a loaf of bread every day and then one day it’s a chocolate cake. Its his birthday
in 2012 in collaboration with the National Library and Archive of Canada ((Commissioned by SAW Video in Ottawa as part of their Public Domain project through the Canada Council's Media Arts Commissioning program ))
If I say I dreamt these images and then found them in the archive, it is because I already had the images in my head, but not as memories
Memory is an irradiated zoo in which the various animals are mutating extravagantly and dying slowly.
Appropiates Porn in which a female hunter kills a bear and they bang on the dead beaer
Adam and Eve of Prolapsarian society
You cannot really call yourself an animal if your brain is bigger than your teeth.
a desire for building, assuming and maintaining an identity that is transcultural and transspecies. Is it wrong of me to address the desires of Grey Owl but not those of the beaver, who is named Rawhide? No, because Grey Owl looks directly into the camera thereby opening up a channel or conduit for desires to run from screen to viewer, while Rawhide neglects or refuses to engage us so directly, keeping its internal psychic world to itself. But perhaps it is not even Grey Owl who looks out at us.
An abridgement of Melanie Klein’s Narrative of a child analysis, who was a psychoanalyst who documented 93 sessions. This is an abridged version
Ends in a coda of children’s drawings
Becoming and polar concepts in association/relation
Various works from 2007-present
immersed in a common chaos of signs, gadgets, and sensations, and somehow detached from it, too
anguished homosexual persecution into an international tendency in art and life to desensitize, to superficialize, and to lay the groundwork for the rise of the human machine.
In 2004
“terrorist chic” since it’s a parallelism between the personal revolution and the Cuban Revolution.
urban geurillas kidnap the son of a wealthy industrialist. Names are all from the Red Army Faction
Slogans:
“The Revolution is my Boyfriend”
“Fuck me for the Revolution”
“Are you revolutionary enough to five up your girlfriends?”
“homosexual intifada”
“no revolution without sexual revolution, no sexual revolution without homosexual revolution”
“out of the bedrooms into the streets” “heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses” “masturbation is counter-revolutionary”
2008
Its about Zombies who can communicate with each other telepathically but it’s a hazy language like a bad radio. They have no memory but function. He gets sucked into doing a movie called Up with Dead People about political pornography
Metonymic for schizophrenia, any “negative” desire, homosexuality, (mind control) proliteriate
2013 TIFF
A boy who gets a job at a nursing home and falls in love with a senior citizen. Girlfriend named Desiree
Language of Apathy and Empathy. Orgasm as revolution.
Fantasy is ideology. Fundamentally lie according to psychology (fantasy covers up) Language blur is covered by fantasy. Violence comes from a resistance to victimhood. Military intervention.
If writing is a trauma, a violence into reality. It erupts from a lack of cognitive mapping, we don’t know where we are. It is an act of suicide.
