Red , 2021 Two-channel video installation 10 minutes, 15 seconds Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Red (2021) bathes the viewer in red light. The screen flickers and changes color. A corner of white is occasionally revealed. The artist achieved a strobe effect by placing their thumb over the iPhone camera. Integral to the work is a trigger warning for the fluctuating light levels inside the room, deliberately placed on a wall outside it. The work responds to the historical legacy of avant-garde and structuralist filmmaking that deconstructed the material aspects of film. Here, however, Lazard considers the “crip” sensibility within such histories and practices that were perhaps always integral but undefined, unacknowledged, and ill-articulated. Red responds quite specifically to a legacy of experimental film by artists like Tony Conrad, Peter Kubelka, and Paul Sharits. Lazard has noted that Tony Conrad’s The Flicker (1966) included a note
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