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Commissioned video installation including 30 min music/video/essay and 500 used Amazon boxes.
For "The Fulfillment Center" at Black Cube Nomadic Museum Sept 13 - Feb 14, 2019
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Big Opening Event is a collective post-consumer endeavor held at the Fulfillment Center in July 2019. Amazon boxes were collected from all over the country to be used in an opening ceremony modeled after the balloon releases of public celebrations and political rallies. A video essay situates this unmanned event within a history of excess and naïveté in mass celebratory spectacle, underscoring the misguided fanfare around mass commercial development projects in recent years. Smile boxes rain from the ceiling like empty promises, untangling the complex relationship between politics and economic development that underlies these voracious—and nearly unregulated—“Megadeals.”

CREDITS

Direction, Edit & Score:
Nina Sarnelle

Set Design:
Don Edler

Thanks to:
Don Edler, Cortney Stell, Hannah James, Gretchen Schaefer, Derrick Velasquez, Nicole Elliot, El Meek, Catherine Nelson, Maggie Keenan, Stacy Sawyer, Livy Snyder, Avery Glassman, Bryce Walsh, Nathan Beck, Hadia Nelson, Isla Hansen, Tucker Marder, Theo Triantafyllidis, Gottfried Haider, Ariel Herwitz, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, John Dombrowski, Lauren Yeager, Misael Soto, Rob Southard, Casey Kauffmann, Dave Kyu, Ian Charnas, Tatiana Vahan, Kara Hearn and Laura Dillon.

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