2011
5-channel HD video, Touch Parade, (crush) 9:22 min loop; (squeeze-2-pop) 5:49 min loop; (wading) 3:41 min loop; (glove love) 6:58 min loop; (pedal pump) 5:45 min loop.
A video installation that explores “plastic love” or fetish culture and the assimilation of marginalized sexuality on the internet. In questioning what is an explicit and/or illicit image, fetishes found on YouTube that consist of banal gestures, are re-performed. Unlike other pornographic content these videos evade censoring because they are not culturally recognized as representations of sexuality.
Installation view of Touch Parade, 2011
Video still, Touch Parade (crush), 2011
Video still, Touch Parade (squeeze-2-pop), 2011
Video still, Touch Parade (wading), 2011
Video still, Touch Parade (glove love), 2011
Video still, Touch Parade (pedal pump), 2011
A video composite of all five videos playing simultaneously, similar to the installation.
Touch Parade, 2012 from A.K. Burns on Vimeo.