Patriotic
Video, collaboration with Pascal Lièvre, 2005
The language of anti-terrorism takes an unexpected form in a seductive propaganda video that scores text sampled from George W. Bush's infamous Patriotic Act of 2001 to Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme to Titanic).
Patriotic was produced with financial support from Arcadi France, and includes performances by François Delclaux, Matthieu Delahausse, and Vincent Simon. The video premièred at L’Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris as part of the 2006 Némo Festival. Critical writing about Patriotic includes “Shout, Shout, Let It All Out”, an essay by Derrick Chang addressing artworks that engage themes of queer citizenship and homonationalism for C Magazine, Canada.
