Andrew Demirjian Duration: 2 Min 40 Sec
A quad-screen surveillance monitor pries into both the psychological and physical space of the subject. This video is a critique of Western society’s obsession with productivity and the resulting mental fragmentation. Duration: 2 Min 5 sec
A police chase in reverse illuminates the text of a newly twisted set of Miranda Rights, enforcing the faux-patriotic consumerism of our post 9/11 world. Duration: 1 Min 30 sec
My work as a video artist focuses on questioning Western notions of self-improvement, productivity and success. On a broader level, the work also examines the role of mass media as cultural controller and it’s social and psychological effects on the individual. The videos are short, often under two minutes in length, and are single channel works. The pieces re-contextualize familiar pop-culture visuals, subverting their original meaning through audio and text. Residence (2004) uses a quad-screen security camera image to show the fractured, constant longing for something other than our present state. The immobilizing effects of indecision and regret are represented as a boxing match with oneself in the video Still Life (in 15 Rounds) (2001). In-N-Out (2002) imagines the fashion industry’s fickle dictates of trend as a monotonous stamping machine pounding out the forecast for all to follow.
Andrew Demirjian is a video artist who lives and works in Palisades Park, NJ. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe, in venues such as Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, White Box and Ward-Nasse Gallery, both in New York, and at Modelarnia, Gdansk, Poland. He has received several scholarships and awards, for example the Steinhauser Mullins Scolorship and the Techonology Fellowship, Hunter College, both in 2004.
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Video still from Residence 2004
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