Photo credit: Frank Schwere.
Photo credit: Frank Schwere.
"Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive" (2007); three channel video installation with sound, mixed media (fiberglass cast rocks and monitor, acrylic comets, wooden billboard screens), running time 12 minutes, dimensions variable
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"Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive" is a multiple channel video projected onto roadside billboards surrounded by a desert landscape. Flaming comets, translated from pinball game graphics into laser-cut forms, pummel a landscape of cast fiberglass rocks, interlacing psychological, physical, and virtual terrains. In the videos, Lucas performs herself differently-abled, set out on an introspective journey in search of self-knowledge, while recovering from the bizarre effects of an inflamed rash, a rash that functions as an antenna for receiving Bingo call numbers. Under the care of licensed hypnotherapist, Dr. Ron Abbott, a collaborator in this lived performance, Lucas retires from her position as Bingo caller (a position that she does not actually hold) at an airport casino (that does not exist).
"Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive" emerged out of a collaboration with the artist collective eteam and residents of a small town in Nevada, as a part of the International Airport Montello project. Music composed by Geoffrey Morris.
Photo credit: Frank Schwere.
Photo credit: Paul Slocum.