SQUIRRELY

2011

Appropriated YouTube footage from two separate videos, edited and spliced with captions added. Squirrely juxtaposes two contrasting encounters with the squirrel body: in one, a child affectionately handles a dead squirrel while her parents film, later instructing her that she needs to take a bath; in the other, a young boy is taught to hunt squirrel so his mother can prepare “squirrel melts.” Despite these differing contexts, both videos generated similar forms of online hysteria within comment sections.

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Squirrely was installed as a storefront window display during the Dooryard Arts Festival in Woodstock, NB.