MARGET
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The Medium is the Mirage

Mathew Brady’s Skylight
Mathew Brady’s Skylight
Rearranging Canon Balls
Blanks I
Blanks II
Visiting Cards
Everyone I Owe

Artist Books
Flash + Cube (1965-1975)
When I Was a Mirage
Removing James Franco 

Hunting Blinds
Nature Valley

Film + Video

You Were Drifting, 2016

Two-channel video with sound, 2015 (25 minutes)

Long crafts a hallucinatory narrative from found footage of mirages, assembling a queer landscape in perpetual transition. One mirage spills into another and another: bodies dive into non-existent pools, swim through sand, and chase the impossible along the horizon. Installed on two stacked monitors, the inverted lower screen refracts the image from the upper, doubling and distorting the scene. In this continual appearing and disappearing, the coordinates of orientation themselves are unsettled.

Mirages are queer landscapes: disorienting, desirous, receding. They resist the normal logics of perspective and approach; get too close and they dissolve. In queer phenomenology, such disorientation can be both loss and possibility—a way of finding new routes through space and thought. 
You Were Drifting, Two Channel Video with sound, 2015 (25 minutes)

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