Bridget Moser: My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists
January 17–April 25, 2021
In her video My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists (2020), Bridget Moser uses prop humor to create an unsettling, darkly comic atmosphere of performative existential angst. Harnessing the uncanny effect of “cursed images” and “oddly satisfying videos,” Moser addresses a heady mix of issues and ideas, including the sentience of objects, white privilege, fetishism, and the difficulties of attaining meaningful human connection and intimacy.
Entertaining and bewildering, Moser’s videos and performances are carefully constructed hybrids of language, gesture, and sound that explore anxiety of the self, breakdowns in communication, and articulation of meaninglessness. In My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists, Moser expands these themes by directly addressing the absurdities and subtle horrors of life under modern-day capitalism, the obstructive tendencies of whiteness, and feelings of impending doom as they relate to a disastrous climate future.
My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists has a run time of 22 minutes.
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Bridget Moser: My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists is supported by the Kohler Trust for Arts and Education, the Frederic Cornell Kohler Charitable Trust, Kohler Foundation, Inc., and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
