Great and Terrible Collective’s “I Got Rosacea Just for this Party” presents a completely different approach to video and display. The show, curated by Dana M. Osburn, is set in a Kensington living room where each TV has a chair in front of it so viewers can sit and watch the videos with the intensity of a Saturday morning. “Wipe Outlet” by Sarah Mooney features cartoon dinosaurs heading out to a big box store to buy a selection of wipes that range from butt wipes to anti-aging, cholesterol, and lobster wipes. My notes from watching Mooney’s next video, “Hello,” read “Clay people and a paper guy in a boat, in a nut, painting trees. Cheese on a toothbrush. We were angels.” I think that’s a pretty accurate recap.
Kristina Centore’s “Pup” shows a claymation girl begging her parents for a dog. After a mildly frightening tantrum they relent and give her a dog that proceeds to eat her. The out of tune and hostile version of Fur Elise on the soundtrack is particularly apropos for anyone forced into piano lessons at a certain age. Centore’s “Young Lives” is even more blood thirsty with two golum-like children in a fight that escalates through decapitation and dismemberment and just continues into a fade out with the boys’ skeletons still fighting and a soft voice saying “blood, blood, blood.” These vignettes perfectly mimic the Sunday cartoons that had lower production values and higher morality content than the much more loved Saturday fare. Except, of course, for their intense and remorseless outcomes.
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