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Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura story …Just one more thing! VILM, Stereo, Color, 57:30, DCP, 2024 Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke and Laura Laura story …Just one more thing! is the latest collaboration by Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns reframing elements of nostalgic popular culture into contemporary dialogue with soap operatic tropes, fictional televisual humor, and interspecies relationships. Characters from daytime drama, 1970's children programming, gameshows, and sequential art history are reimagined and re-contextualized to consider new potential mutations and cohabitations to thrive in a changing environment. Transformation is unboxed, and memory solicited through easter eggs, lidar animations, appropriations, and original videos interweaving recognizable characters from television commingled with their new doubled variants. Just one more thing…. Our forecasted performative rituals may suggest ways that these characters merge human and non-human characteristics of past trauma into new bodies of possibility.

Burns & Martin both received BFA’s at Alfred University. Burns received his MFA in video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. Martin received an MFA in media and sculpture from The University of California, San Diego in 2000. Together, they have based their videos and installations on their research into diverse speculative fictions including re-imagined educational practices, appropriated horror genres, animation choreographies, soap-opera cosplay, and cryptid human love stories. Selected videos are distributed by VTape, Ontario, Canada and Video Data Bank, Chicago. They have participated in residencies at Eyebeam, Signal Culture, and The Experimental Television Center. Their single channel videos have screened at venues including The Museum of Art & Design, Pacific Film Archive, Aurora Picture Show, Migrating Forms, Video_Dumbo, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art, Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Oberhausen Short Film and Video Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Spectacle Theater, 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival, and the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival. Their installations have exhibited at venues including Eyebeam, The Lab, Krowswork Gallery, Fosdick Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Hobart and William-Smith Davis Gallery, Zhangzhou Museum of Art in China, and The Tack Room Project Space in LaVerne, CA.