EXCERPT FROM PRESS RELEASE: “The name of the show, The Pump that Jack Used, is a “tongue and cheek” play on children’s picture book titles, applied to the executive political workings of the all mighty oil industry. While conducting research in preparation for the show, Anthony Thompson Shumate discovered that the same 15 people sit on […]

A pre-election video installation piece, with Obama reciting the 1 section of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. In the first section, Marx outlines what the problem is with the class structure and its implied problems. It is an obivious quote to Shepard Fairley’s provactive poster. [hana-flv-player video=”https://actsstudios.com/images/Obama3.flv” width=”450″ height=”700″ description=”” player=”4″ autoload=”true” autoplay=”false” loop=”false” […]

A video short about paranoia and imagination… [KGVID]https://actsstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/BlimpnationSmall.mov[/KGVID]

This short is based around the perception of everyday life and our routines.  The viewer is tossed into a world where one character arrives and ascends into his home carrying a bag from work, only to continue to continue to work (removing items and brushing teeth).  While the viewer, through the camera, descends to the […]

This short is based around the distracting nature of advertising, and its impacts on the globalization of media and culture. The viewer is torn between watching the attack of a car filled with terrorists by NATO troops in Kosovo and an late 80s McDonald’s commercial about the Big Mac.  In its irony, the spot was […]

Suitor of Helen White Pine, LCD screen, DVD, and 8 screws 18” x 42” x 36” Based on both the Fat Boy Bomb and the Trojan Horse, this work explores the duality of icons and their juxtapositions when related to history. This includes a looped video of politically correct youths marching in line. It also […]

The name of the show, Stations, is a “tongue and cheek” play on the common euphemism of the fourteen stations where Christ stopped on his final sacred voyage, and the top fourteen gas service stations (not gas companies) in America.

ClubGitm’o:Houston highlighted the current political struggle between prevention from terrorism versus the deterioration of civil rights with a luxurious touch. The experience of ClubGitm’o:Houston addressed the conflict by directly presenting both truths: the methods to prevent terrorism and the need to protect civil rights and the overstepping of both camps. By participating in this event, […]