Video

HOMe

Kevin Lee Burton

2024, 02:54 minutes

TAPECODE 772.04

"HOMe is a four minute experimental video connecting the homoerotic with the land. Burton explores gay identity, Indigeneity, and rural living through images taken on his ancestral territory of God’s Lake Narrows, Manitoba. In the work, he is situated both at home on his living room couch, and outdoors on reserve. The video moves between sexy, campy, fetishized images of him standing partially naked in front of a bonfire, peering alluringly through a fence, wearing only a jacket and pair of underwear while hunting. He kneels defiantly on the dirt with water from his water bottle spilling everywhere, or provocatively posing on a rock. These photographs are juxtaposed with images of him at home, gazing steadfast at the camera confronting the viewer as if to ask, “What do you see?“ The words, HOME and HOMO are inserted into this video and move across the screen anchoring his photographs and text into images of sexuality, place and land. Burton states, “My greatest goal is to create a fluid connection between traditional and technological ideas. Then we can start creating from self-expression rather than self-definition.”

-Kate Barry (written for Luma Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 22, Fall 2020). Available to read here: https://lumaquarterly.com/issues/volume-six/022-fall/the-instability-of-place-kevin-lee-burton-paul-wong-and-amanda-strong-on-grunt-gallerys-urban-screen/

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