Kozyra

lords of the dance

lords of the dance

video installation, 2002

The installation consists of seven screens showing looped fragments of film of various lengths. From a crowd of motorcyclists a couple emerge; they perform a series of acrobatic exercises. The sequences of images draw upon a multitude of imagined versions of masculine idols, heroes, freedom fighters and personifications of solidarity. The artist harnesses a range of cultural clichés and invokes the comics, gadgets, films, kitsch and icons embedded in our everyday consciousness.