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Talent Show

Laura Parnes

1996 | 00:04:44 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | Video

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Found Footage, Music, Performance, Sexuality, Youth/Childhood

Talent Show satirizes music videos, while exploring sexual development in the age of the spectacle. The images in Talent Show are from the same found footage as Performance. The young boys lip-synch to a bubble gum rock song as they attempt to publicly assert their new-found sexual power. This display is disrupted both by the realistic "lyrics" in the soundtrack, and the comically over-enthusiastic thrusting of young boys' bodies as they flail about on stage.

This title is also available on the compilation Real Life MTV.

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Exhibitions + Festivals

New York Underground Film Festival, 2000 

Video Library, David Zwirner, New York, 1998 

Spoonful of Sugar, Rutgers University, New York, 1998 

Video Room Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 1998 

The Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, 1998 

Current Undercurrent Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1997 

The Best of New York Shorts Expo, Knitting Factory, New York, 1997 

Video Tensions, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1997 

Monitor, The City Gallery of Wellington, New Zealand, 1997 

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand, 1997

Bronwyn Keenan, New York, 1997