Full-Length Documentation of Video
Let’s Get Married
Single Channel Video, trt 3:30
Let’s Get Married is a collaborative project between the artist team of Magsamen + Hillerbrand and playwright, Kirk Lynn based on the surrealist writings of Comte de Lautréamont. In this video, three different people playfully construct and devour faces made out of bread, peanut butter, and jelly. The images become chaotic and the viewer loses track of what is created and what is regurgitated as audio of bees buzzing and a woman reciting lines that end with “peanut butter and jelly” gets louder and louder.
“All my life I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without exception, perform innumerable stupid actions, brutalize his fellows, and poison minds by every conceivable means. Seeing these things I have desired to laugh and smile with the others, but this strange imitation was impossible for me. I have taken a knife and severed the flesh at the spots where the lips come together, cutting them into a smile. For a moment I thought to have accomplished my end. I looked into the mirror and inspected the mouth I had deliberately butchered. It was a mistake! The blood falling copiously from the two wounds made it impossible to distinguish whether this was really the smile of other men. But after several minutes of comparison, I could see clearly that my smile in no way resembled human laughter: in other words, I was not laughing.”
- Lautremont