The 45-minute recording of The Disco Project commenced every hour on the hour, while the new text played on a 4.5-minute loop that was not synchronized to the start of the video documentation. Consequently, the temporal relationships between the new text and specific moments within The Disco Project were chance determined and different for each showing.
The Disco Project (1995) followed Not-About-AIDS-Dance (1994) in the progression of my work. For both I employ projected text that provides nonfictional information about the lives of the performers. Created in the 1990s, AIDS played an inescapable role in the text of both works. Fast forward to 2021 and COVID-19, which reverberated for me with the AIDS crisis; considering these ongoing pandemics together raised comparisons between the reception with which each has been met (for instance: no Operation Warp Speed for an HIV vaccine, still).
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Johanna Fateman, Art Forum, 2022
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Text for “The Disco Project Installation,” 2021, Greene Naftali
Text for "The Disco Project Installation," 2022, White Columns Annual