VIDEO POEMS

VIDEO POEMS is a series of multi-channel video installations where poetry transmits through multiple televisions. Vintage-processed video—created through 1990s Videonics equipment— makes present footage feel like memory, while manipulated vocals stretch and distort across ambient soundscapes.

"I've Got to Hold On," explores childhood memory, aging, and the struggle to stay present amid technology's numbing scroll. First-person lyrics move from disconnection—"I wish I could do anything but scroll / I'm getting nothing but old"—toward reconnection: "don't let em break you, kid." The tone holds melancholy alongside warmth, discombobulation alongside encouragement.

The televisions don't merely display the text—they embody it. This transforms familiar screens into uncanny sites where reality and memory blur together. The work explores how symbiotic relationships with screens shape experience of time and self.

VIDEO POEMS extends Bozeman's ongoing investigation into the fallibility of time perception.