excerpt from Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing! ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing!
A collaborative project with Torsten Zenas Burns that premiered as an exhibition in September 2022 at The Tack Room in La Verne, CA. The print work in the exhibition evolved into an augmented reality project (see documentation below), and the video that shares its name with the title of the exhibition has both a looped exhibition version of 60 minutes and a highly altered theatrical release of 59 minutes that has premiered at the 2024 Chicago Underground Film Festival in a program titled Generalized Hospitals.  
The exhibition included videos, sculptures, print, and jigsaw puzzle reliefs reframing elements of nostalgic popular culture into contemporary dialogue with soap operatic tropes, televisual humor, and fictional interspecies relationships. Scenes from daytime drama, 1970's children programming, gameshows, tv interviews, reimagined sequential art characters are re-contextualized to consider new potential cohabitating mutations to thrive in a changing environment. Transformation is unboxed, and memory solicited through easter eggs, lidar animations, appropriations, and original videos interweaving recognizable characters from television commingled with their new doubled variants. In just one more thing…., our forecasted performative rituals suggest ways that these characters merge human and non-human characteristics of past trauma into new bodies of possibility.

Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing! exhibition photo by Kari Gatzke

production still from Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing! ​​​​​​​

Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing!, 11x15" ​​​​​​​hardcover book, 142 pages

Match Game, 82 x 7" metal strip with 12 magnetic puzzles (detail on right)

Generalized Hospitals: House Call Mécanique, silent HD Video loop, 44 minutes 

excerpts from silent Generalized Hospitals: House Call Mécanique, HD Video loop, 44 minutes 

Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing! exhibition photo by Kari Gatzke

Clearlake Swamp Womanifestation, 20 x 20 x 9" wall sculpture, plastic hemisphere, variable costume elements  

Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing!    installation loop, HD video with sound, 60 minutes

video still from Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing! ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing! exhibition photo by Kari Gatzke

production still from Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura Story… just one more thing! ​​​​​​​

Grand Design: (DM/TZB/LSTALLS/RC/HLK/GH) - V.H.S. Re-Memory Unboxing Kit, 55 x 30 x 30” sculpture, 4 puzzle prints, tripod, 5 VHS tapes, wood box

Daytime Drama Trauma Coordinator, 6 x 36 x 24” 1000-piece puzzle on baltic birch shelf

Roots of Dunamase, 74 x 24” archival inkjet print

The print above was turned into the source material for an augmented reality print featured as part of the Future Bodies Symposium and Exhibition, Merging Spaces/Future Bodies, curated by Rachel Clarke at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. See the documentation of it appearing through the application that allowed viewers to see 3D content hovering above each of the four sections of the print. 

Roots of Dunamase, 77 x 27” print - augmented reality version

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