SUPPORTING ACTOR

“Supporting Actor” is an 11 minute animation, made collaboratively with artist Pieter Schoolwerth which debuted as part of Schoolwerth's exhibition "Supporting Actor" at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, in New York.  The video follows an animated avatar of musician Aaron Dilloway, who also made the soundtrack for the video. In the video we follow the simulated version of Dilloway through a series of sets: a tiled bathroom, a club, and a third site akin to a studio or gallery. The story begins in a familiar dream space, the bathroom, as the protagonist brushes his teeth and discovers the sound conjuring a series of anthropomorphic stains on the Celotex ceiling tiles. Suddenly, one stain above him opens a portal, welcoming him into a fantastical club. Equal parts Star Wars cantina and psychedelic cabaret, the luminous environment throbs with figures inventively drawn from the stain shapes as these farcical post-human creatures dance ecstatically to Dilloway’s soundtrack.