Arlo Mountford, We Wanted Something More 2007

Arlo Mountford We Wanted Something More, 2007

Developed as a part of the exhibition The Flux of the Matter, We Wanted Something More hosted a series of redrawn YouTube videos involving humorous accidents. These played on top of an animation of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a naked Eve Babitz, directly referencing Julian Wasser’s notorious photograph for Time magazine from 1964.

Single channel digital animation. Duration 4:34 minutes