Up Around the Bend

Up Around the Bend is a 2 min 59 second video, which was also part of my exhibition disruptive desires. I appear in the video, sitting on a chair, draped in a wild boar skin, whilst playing an online, first-person shooter game called The Hunter to Creedence Clearwater Revival's Up Around the Bend. With the wild boar’s headover my face as a mask or second skin, I was looking through the empty eye sockets where the boar's eyes had once been.

I entered into a form of hybrid or assemblage with the boar, forming– rather than an extension of myself – a new entity, a new character. While filming, the visuals of the game were projected back onto me-as-wild-boar as I played the game that created strange overlays: the human as boar, the hunter and the hunted; the boar as human,the hunter and the hunted; the movement of the boar-human as I was playing the game, and thejerky movements of the visual images of the game.