Over the course of the next few posts, we’ll share artist interviews and insights about this year’s ON SIGHT visual arts line-up. You can experience all of TBA:09’s visual arts installations from Sept 4 – 13, every day 12 – 6:30 pm. And join us for a free opening night reception party September 3, from 8 – 10:30 pm at Washington High School (map).
Robert Boyd’s Conspiracy Theory, the first part of his forthcoming project TOMORROW PEOPLE, is a synchronized two-channel video installation. Conspiracy Theory addresses issues of social paranoia and civil distrust in an era of questionable politics using excerpts from syndicated radio talk show hosts, international conspiracists, amateur documentary filmmakers, and the mysterious Commander X. Here, Boyd has submitted a top ten “Conspiracy Countdown.” Originally published in the P.S.1 newspaper on the occasion of his exhibition there in January of 2008.
Figure I: An Installation View of Robert Boyd’s Conspiracy Theory.
10. Welt am Draht (World On a Wire), 1973
The made-for-TV science fiction film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder portrays a computer programmer who is working on a project called Simulacron that is able to simulate a full featured reality, only to discover that he, and the world he inhabits, is a simulation.
9. Secrets of the Matrix, 2004
David Icke presents a 6-hour lecture about “a network of interbreeding (reptilian) bloodlines that have been pursuing an agenda for thousands of years to impose a globally centralized fascist state with total control and surveillance of the population.”
8. UFO Abductions: A Global Phenomenon, 1998
Michael Hesemann’s documentary about alien abductees features Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, a former medical officer from Finland; Whitley Strieber, the author of Communion, and Louis Turi, a metaphysical doctor who was abducted while en route to his brother’s disco in the south of France.
7. Anthrax, Smallpox, Vaccinations and the Mark of the Beast, 2005
Leonard Horowitz presents “little known facts regarding threatened outbreaks; the science, economics, and global politics underlying bioterrorism and forced vaccinations,” and the mark of the beast.
6. Loose Change: 1st edition, 2005
Dylan Avery theorizes in an online expose that “9-11 was an inside job.”
5. Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove, 2000
Alex Jones infiltrates the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, CA to expose “the occult playground of the global elite.”
4. The Strecker Memorandum, 1988
Robert B. Strecker theorizes that AIDS is a man-made disease that was introduced into the human population through medical injection programs.
3. Communion, 1989
Film adaptation, starring Christopher Walken, of Whitley Strieber’s bestselling novel about the author’s personal experiences of being abducted by aliens.
2. The Secret Underground Lectures of Commander X, 2004
A retired military intelligence official reveals the “shocking truth about the New World Order, UFOs, Mind Control and more.”
1. V: The Original Miniseries, 1983
A race of reptilian aliens attempt to take over Earth.
About
Robert Boyd’s work has been exhibited at venues such as the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (2009); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY (2008); Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT (2008); Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2008); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (2008); The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis (2007); 303 Gallery, NY (2007); PKM Gallery, Beijing (2006); Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2006); and Participant Inc, NY (2006). His work is included in several public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création in Paris.
www.robertboyd.info
