Song Poem Trips Visits (2001)

Song Poem Trips Visits is a singlechannel work I created using videotapes I found in secondhand stores from home movies to hunting howto tapes It was created for a show titled Song Poems which took as its departure a popular 196070s mailorder phenomenon advertised in the back of magazines offering to set poems to music in an array of styles and return them as singles The exhibition brought together musicians and video artists to set original poems by a variety of artists and writers to music and images I created a video for an original poem by the shows curator Steven Hull with music composed by The Pony Express an alternative New York rock band Robert Beck