Double Scoop, the art-centric nonprofit news outlet in Nevada, reviews my piece in the ¡Intermediary Fluctuations of a Post-Fluxus World! exhibition in Las Vegas.
“In Shahab Zargari’s video “The Possessed Tube TV,” a man stands atop a TV in the middle of nowhere; he shatters the TV screen with a sledgehammer, wobbling the TV enough that he falls off. The video’s exquisite slow motion and animated elements imbue this sequence of minor smashings with a grander drama, the manipulative techniques of video amplifying its content. “That’s kinda what I loved,” Chavez says. “It’s sort of exposing video, but it’s one act—everything’s breaking.”
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