A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain

Jonathan Reiss

1984 | 00:43:57 | United States | English | Color | 4:3 | Video

Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles

Tags: Artist Portraits, Documentation, Interview, Performance, Technology

Flesh meets robotics in this early video documentation of Survival Research Laboratory’s spectacular exhibitions of collective invention, anti-corporate technology, and satirical mass destruction. In the performances documented here, various animal corpses are integrated into the action as the clawed and spiked machines attack dummies, each other, and, occasionally, the audience. The video begins with the song Stairwell to Hell, an appropriate prologue.

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