Holland Cotter, writing in The New York Times, describes the „sensationally anarchic“ video I-Be Area, in which Trecartin uses what Cotter terms „very basic digital tools to create a highly personal narrative art, almost a kind of folk art.“
Cotter writes: „We‘re in a house of many tight, messy rooms. In the suburbs? Cyberspace? Hard to say.
Anyway, it‘s night. A door bangs open. A girl, who is also a boy, dashes in, talking, talking. Other people are already there, in gaudy attire, dire wigs and makeup like paint on de Koonings. Everyone moves in a jerky, speeded-up, look-at-me way and speaks superfast to one another, to the camera, into a cellphone. Phrases whiz by about cloning, family, same-sex adoption, the art world, the end of the world, identity, blogging, the future. Suddenly indoors turns into outdoors, night into day, and we‘re at a picnic, in dappled sunshine, with a baby. Then this all reverses, and we‘re indoors again. A goth band is pounding away in the kitchen. The house is under siege. Hysteria. Everyone runs through the walls.“
„…For queer artists of Mr. Trecartin‘s generation, cross-dressing, cross-identifying and cross-thinking are part of a state of being, not statements of political position. Like the work of John Waters and Jack Smith, his art is about just saying no to life as we think we have seen it and saying yes to zanier, virtual-utopian possibilities.“
Cotter, Holland. „Video Art Thinks Big: That‘s Showbiz.“ The New York Times. January 6, 2008.
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