We are the King of Ventilators | Tim Etchells
“We are the King of Ventilators” is a compelling and prescient performance to camera by Jim Fletcher, directed by Tim Etchells, with text by Chris Thorpe. The work takes a phrase about US ventilator production repeated by US President Donald Trump during the Covid-19 epidemic, and places it in sharp counterpoint with original material to create a comical and unsettling reflection on power, mortality, and delusion.
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Artist: Tim Etchells
Title of the work: We are the King of Ventilators
Year: 2020
Medium/Format: Single channel video
“We are the King of Ventilators” is produced by Forced Entertainment.
Post-production video support by Hugo Glendinning.
Duration of the work: 9΄
Language: English
Performance: Jim Fletcher
Text: Chris Thorpe
Direction: Tim Etchells
Post-Production video: Hugo Glendinning
Project produced by Forced Entertainment
“We are the King of Ventilators” is a diptych directed by Tim Etchells with text by Chris Thorpe, performed by Jim Fletcher.
Commissioned both as part of the ENTER program by the Onassis Foundation and developed for Forest Fringe TV with the support of Teatro do Bairro Alto (Lisbon), Cambridge Junction and Colchester Arts Centre.
This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.
