Installation, performance, painting, video.
Garrett Pruter (President, D&D) — Aluminium name plate, bouquet, painting, computer, desk, Eames executive office chair.
Garrett Pruter (President, D&D) — Aluminium name plate, bouquet, painting, computer, desk, Eames executive office chair.
Screensaver (searching) — Digital video, computer, bouquet, desk, Eames executive office chair. 2020.
1240 photographs
I would like to talk to you about D&D — Digital video, sound. 10 minutes, 41 seconds. 2020.
I would like to talk to you about D&D — Digital video, sound. 10 minutes, 41 seconds. 2020.
Summer Flowers — Digital print on Fruit of the Loom XL white t-shirt. Edition of 40. 2020.
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D&D is the fictional advertising agency in 90s soap opera, Melrose Place. In the setting's establishing shots, actors dressed as business-people walk in circles outside an idealized American workplace. Inside (and unseen), plots are steered by power plays, closed-door meetings, and the absurd bureaucracy of late-stage capitalism.
At D&D, bureaucratic systems and capitalistic desires are exposed and perverted into revenge theater. I’m interested in the cyclical nature of soap operas -- plotlines, characters, locations, and transition shots are all endlessly recycled and reconfigured.
In this installation, I imagine D&D as the setting for my own practice, exploiting the restrictive and repetitive nature of D&D-bureaucracy to mine information out of images that may otherwise be overlooked.