MARATHON (BLACK MIRROR)
2018
18 hour 9 minute action for video
[presented as 90 min single channel video]
One more episode. Just one more, then another. Let’s watch until the finale. The next season, when we’re surrounded by snacks and in want of a shower. Let’s watch until the bitter end — stiff and sore from idleness, from gluttonous consumption, from all that ‘entertainment’.
Marathon (Black Mirror) is an 18-hour endurance event in which I watched each episode of the techno-dystopia ‘Black Mirror’, documenting my consumption. Lit only by natural light / the light of the screen, my responses are played simultaneously, constricting this durational act into a singular 90-minute ‘episode’ that pits the cacophony of this entangled experience against my own languid state and transforms the watcher into the watched. This work was commissioned for ‘The TV SHOW’ curated by Daniel Mudie-Cunningham.