DISAPPEAR HERE
Credits
2-Channel Video Installationstarring
Meghan Lynch
crew
1st A.D.: Ivette Zighelboim
D.P. / Gaffer: Ian Vollmer
Audio Technician: Alex Portugal
Still Photographer: Stephen Hilger / Sue de Beer
Casting: Alissa Bennett / Sue de Beer
monologue
for 'Disappear Here' excerpted from an untitled novel by Alissa Bennett
Filmed in Brooklyn, NY, 2004
Run time: 5 minutes
Disappear Here first exhibited in SCREAM, at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, 2004, and The Moore Space, Miami, 2004
curated by Michael Clifton and Fernanda Arruda
2004
Runtime: 5 Minutes
Excerpt from: Shamim Momin’s "Come Back to Me: Making Your Amends (to the Dead)", Sue de Beer, EMERGE Monograph 2005
In your room, where time stands still, or moves at your will
Will you let the morning come soon? Or will you leave me lying here?
In your favorite darkness, your favorite half-light, your favorite consciousness
-DEPECHE MODE, "In Your Room," 1993
YOU DON'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE
The first intercut image in the short video Disappear Here presents a sheet cake, as from a child's birthday party, showing the sentence "The recollection is a cascade of spatial metaphors" in frosting. (The phrase neatly summarizes a conceptual thread tying together all of de Beer's work.) A teenage girl enters her bedroom. She is wearing a Girl Scout uniform that seems at first sweet, then - as she gets ready for something before the mirror - confining, too small. The props of her transformation include a cigarette and studded leather bracelets, anachronistic accessories that imply the multiple roles she is playing, outgrowing some but not yet comfortable in the next.