care could suck in the future [sic] ~ 07:49 | Arden Carlson | 2022-12-13 | USA

Artist Arden Carlson cribs the educational how-to format to render a queerly comic, sparsely staged, meticulously choreographed instructional video for enacting care, and splices it with a series of interstitial stock footage sequences of wild horses, each one narrated by a disembodied voice-of-God praising the attributes of horses with a patriarchal authority defining of 1950s America. A darkly funny coupling of dystopic retrofuturism and video mixtape, care could suck in the future [sic] makes its world premiere in Good Symptom.

About the Artist

Arden Carlson works across mediums including video & performance. Arden’s concern is their practice, exploring how care is enacted in a body of work and how it reaches beyond, connecting to embodied experiences or the imaginary. The scope of Arden's creative practice has been shaped by their experience as a queer individual in the rural south region of the United States.