Ivers and Armstrong create site specific video installations that explore how media can disrupt when content undermines viewers expectations. By placing challenging material in a familiar context, viewers are forced to reevaluate their notions of what is “normal” and what is “television” .
Alone At Last
Alone at Last was conceived in 1981 (and completed in 2015) as a video installation that explores issues of gender and fantasy.
Designed in the pre-AIDS era when bath houses and back rooms, no-strings sex and role playing were all part of life in downtown New York, Alone at Last invited artists, musicians, and locals with an offer of self-representation, a chance to enact what desire, romance, and even manipulation meant to them.
Video Lounge
A recreation of the historic Danceteria Video Lounge is a deconstruction of the family rec room for a new era of media viewing. With a mashup of found footage, artists videos and punk music that upended the staid broadcasting of the past, it anticipates the new era of DIY video and YouTube.