VIDEO PROGRAM
A character in wig and sunglasses sings into cameras, addressing someone who isn't there. Live and pre-recorded performers sing together, asking each other questions they cannot answer.
Video Program is an ongoing series of multimedia solo performances combining live synth-pop songs, 5 CRT and flatscreen televisions, live-feed cameras, and pre-recorded video. In each piece, the performer manipulates a central command station of video switchers and lighting faders. Pre-recorded video plays on some screens while live camera feeds play on others.
Each piece follows an unreliable narrator whose seemingly trustworthy account unravels. In "Come Home", a man recording a VHS tape for his ex-lover reveals she left him for an alien; the piece ends with an oversized VHS tape sculpture flying into projected stars—the finished message sent to space, to the woman, to wherever she has gone. In "On the Screen // In Real Life", a man already immersed in a relationship with technology watches his reflection replaced by a recording behind a two-way mirror; performer and prerecording ask "which one of us is me?" before the TVs cut off one by one, leaving him stripped of technological supports.
Time feels layered throughout as past and present selves confront each other across screens. Old and new technologies collide—CRT televisions buzzing and flickering alongside crisp flat screens—creating an uncanny present where audiences lose track of what is real, remembered, and fabricated. The series toggles between sincerity and absurdity, inviting audiences to recognize their own fallible memories and unstable self-perceptions within characters whose grip on their own narratives comes undone.