Worldshaving: Outro, 2011.
Worldshaving (Outro), by Alex Young and Chris Skinner, 2011. Remix of three channel video installation for express internet consumption at the expense of experiential integrity.
Worldshaving: Outro is a multichannel video installation collaboration with media and performance artist Chris Skinner featuring Skinner as the long-deceased industrialist and razor blade magnate King C. Gillette and takes the form of a series of dramatic monologues cinematically fractured into discrete conversations with place and time. Texts from Max Nordau (Degeneration), William Hazlitt (On the Pleasure of Hating), Ernest Howard Crosby (Homesick) and others are combined in an admixture of melancholic musing, inauspicious thundering, vexation, and disgust. Gillette appears as a figure in the waste landscape, a chimera of hopeful pontificate and snarling discontent—an Alceste, Don Quixote, Ghost of Christmas Present, none of the above. A disenfranchised idealist who lays his admonitions upon the present.
