For the London Transgender Film and Video Festival in 1999, the project web-site was enriched by new work from four UK artists and writers - Del La Grace Volcano, Matthew Fuller, Hans Scheirl and Svar Simpson - and re-versioned as a 4-screen video installation for night-time projection onto the windows of the Lux Gallery.
BRANDON derives its title from Brandon/Teena Brandon of Nebraska, USA - a gender-crossing individual who was raped and murdered in 1993 after his female anatomy was revealed.
Cheang's project deploys Brandon into cyberspace through multi-layered narratives and images in a cross-section between real and virtual space.
The work consists of four template interfaces through which other artists are invited to make contributions to Brandon's journey. The new commissions from UK artists contribute to the "body of evidence" interface of the project. The works are each constructed as sets of cycling images and question-and-answer format texts from real or fictional legal or medical cases, extrapolating from the Brandon story to reflect upon broader institutional regimes of gender classification.
Brandon site: http://brandon.guggenheim.org
Four-screen and single screen versions are available for exhibition.
There is also video documenation available of the Brandon discussion forum.
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