The artist/musician/writer Momus has published a post about “Younger Than Jesus” in general, and about participating artist Ryan Trecartin in particular, on imomus, his blog. Here is part of his description of Trecartin’s work:
I get a camp aggression towards normality from the films — all the characters seem exaggeratedly obnoxious, the settings ugly, heightened from normality into a kind of farce-normality. And yet the pushing-into-garishness of normal suburban ugliness (which happens also formally, on the level of edits and video effects and dialogue) actually becomes weirdly compelling, and suggests a utopia of artificiality, a kind of peacockery of ugliness which becomes a new sort of beauty. I don’t think you could really ask anything more of a 28 year-old artist.
To read the rest, and to watch several embedded YouTube videos, click here.
