WILL AND TESTAMENT
2019
Single channel video, 4’15.
1 minute video excerpt, stills.
Using absurd comedy and overactive censorship to address social awkwardness around matters of death and mortality, Will and Testament presents the artist attempting to produce a video will without ever directly discussing death. The mosaic censor block becomes a digital foe, arresting the flow of the content as I loop over and over, trying to find a sufficiently euphemistic way of discussing my own demise. Will and Testament reveals our public squeamishness around frank conversations by extrapolating polite language to its ridiculous limits. In doing so, it seeks to encourage open conversations about death and about the impacts of the ways in which our bodies are treated after we die.