Devour (2004)

Devour is a dualchannel version of the artists multichannel video projection installation of the same name Schneemann notes that this work brings together a range of images which contrast evanescent fragile elements with violent concussive speeding fragments political disasters domestic intimacy and ambiguous menace In this dense montage the title stands for the voraciously synthetic headon rush of contemporary media and the corresponding nearaddictive impulse of its consumers