Bad Economy
2012
Runtime: 22:00
Rock Opera (Single-channel video and audio)
Bad Economy is a short epic musical about a young man's journey to become an artist during the Great Recession. Bobby is a rebel with a Liberal Arts degree, and he's on the run from the "creative economy" that's closing in around him. At every turn it instrumentalizes his critical stance, saddling him with low-wage work and student debt. The only way out may be a harrowing passage down to his own depths wherein lies the artist's heart.
Love Me Right Now
2023
Runtime: 0:07 video on endless loop
Single channel HD video, stereo audio
https://vimeo.com/1033305483?share=copy
Artist Statement:
In Love Me Right Now, an installation by Neill Prewitt at Whitespace Gallery, a small video reaches out to viewers from a crack in the gallery wall. Putting their eye to the crack, the viewer is engaged with a sensual, immersive experience. In the video, the artist dances in front of a large drawing, moving their body in and out of its abstracted anthropomorphic shape and towards the viewer, demanding “love me, right now.” Responding to the ubiquity of insubstantial videos constantly jittering for our attention from screens embedded everywhere in our environment, Prewitt’s intervention in the gallery opens dialogue between the body and the image, and creates a palpable tension between exterior environments and interior mindscapes.