Video Catalogue
"Furburger intentionally exploits the video medium's intrinsic capacity to create semiotic complexity - image, sound and text are layered so as to create a rich network of connotative meanings...close ups of a man's anal area serves as the tape's visual and conceptual focal point...Image and sound function relatively… ⊕
Stickshaker is intently subliminal in its mix of computer imagery and all-male sex videos. Projecting out of a white screen are seductive words and pictures that acknowledge a possible deficiency. A rimming sexscene between two male porn stars keyed into the international graphic for airport introduces this provocative metaphor… ⊕
1985, 09:45 minutes, colour
tapecode 202.03
"Mark Verabioff's "Crossing the 49th." reasons that since there are 25 million homosexuals in the United States and 23 million people in Canada the two populations should change places, forming the world's first nation organized around sexual preference. The ridiculousness of this fantasy cuts both ways. … ⊕
"Mark Verabioff's "Killing Time" alludes to sexual opportunity in a brief visual account of a male's journey that focuses on the act of making a choice and accepting the outcome, symbolized here by the game of coin tossing. This poetic tape glimpses at the truths of daily existance without resorting to steaming,… ⊕
1984, 02:20 minutes, colour
tapecode 202.01
The tape's title is that of a Donny and Marie song, which appropriates the music video format. The artist's own voice creates sound design that results in a chaotic grotesque application, pushing the limits of the low end video technology used in this production in vain to emulate high glamour during this time period the early… ⊕
