Green Light Burning Shit
Digital video, 8′48″ loop. Rear-projected on car windscreen coated in buttermilk.
In Off-Colour at Helsinki Art Museum, 2023.
On 13. August 2022 a 6-second video of a meteor was posted online. Twitter quickly suspended the account, citing a rule against sharing intimate media without the subject’s consent. The astronomer, scoffing at the idea of taking an intrusive or sexual video of a meteor, declared it an error of AI content moderation. Neither of them backed down.
Off-Colour sides with the AI as a tongue in cheek way to ask about visual capture and categorisation. In 3 linked works, trans and celestial bodies collide, collude, and insist on new terms of access—or refuse us entirely.
Green Light Burning Shit presents dash cam footage of meteors, with nonconsensual shots overwritten by fantasies and new bodies emerging.
Voice actors: Artor Jesus Inkerö, Lauri Itäkannas, Shubhangi Singh. Revoiced excerpts: Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames; NASA online guide How to Handle Meteorites
Green Light Burning Shit (2023), detail. Dash cam footage while driving at dusk, white road markings stretching ahead.
Green Light Burning Shit (2023), installation view. Dash cam footage rear-projected onto car windscreen. Image: Helen Korpak
Green Light Burning Shit (2023), installation view. Rear projection onto car windscreen. POV of a person gazing at their naked crotch, their hand wrapped in medical dressings. Image: Helen Korpak
Green Light Burning Shit (2023), detail. A stapled wound runs from navel to groin, an inky fragment overlaying the area. Caption: I think it’s a way in.
Green Light Burning Shit (2023), detail. A psychedelic mass of red and black explodes across the screen. Caption: Woah, holy shit!
Green Light Burning Shit (2023), installation view. Rear projection onto car windscreen, held tilted forwards on a metal stand. Image: Helen Korpak