Channelbone

2007

Channelbone is a single channel video and a site-specific video installation.

Channelbone is a video of a performance in an Eisenhower-era auditorium where a group of veterans with spinal cord injuries pull a sea of helium balloons as they travel across the stage. Two dancers tango, while people play dominoes at a cafe table and a couple pushes a chalkboard through the balloons, erasing all its contents. The video plays on an old television, suspended in the belly of a humpback whale. The soundtrack is Paloma Negra by Tango Lorca and used with permission.