Interlude

Horny Nostalgia series

Single-channel video, colour, 5 minutes (continuous loop)

Originally presented on CRT television

Interlude explores the uneasy relationship between childhood nostalgia, homosexual desire and the theatrical absurdity of erotic representation. Drawing upon the familiar visual language of cartoon ghosts, the work transforms an innocent figure of popular culture into an awkward and deliberately unsuccessful object of desire.

Set against a saturated red backdrop, a figure concealed beneath a white ghost costume occupies a space somewhere between pantomime, horror and erotic spectacle. The disguise, intended to conceal the body, instead exaggerates its presence, turning the familiar ghost into a ridiculous performer whose attempts at mystery and seduction continually collapse.

Originally presented on a CRT television as a five-minute continuous loop, the work uses repetition to suspend the figure within an unresolved performance. The familiar conventions of entertainment become increasingly absurd as the image repeats, never reaching a satisfying conclusion.

Neither frightening nor convincingly erotic, the ghost exists in a space where the visual languages of childhood entertainment and adult sexuality fail to sustain themselves. Through this collision, Interlude embraces the camp failure of erotic subversion, using humour, artificiality and nostalgia to question the construction of masculine sexuality and the unstable boundaries between innocence and obscenity.