THIS IS NOT EXACTLY A CAT VIDEO

Frances Starck (2007) w/ David Bowie's "Starman" etc.

This...
It's funny. This doesn't speak to me, although perhaps this is because when i first realised it's content (I didn't know before i clicked on the link) I was too excited and overwhelmed that someone had made a video of children spontaneously reacting to/ enjoying / imitating/ worshiping 1. an idol of mine, 2. an icon, 3. music, 4. a music video, and that it was just a candid, unrehearsed moment captured by the artist. Unedited. Decisions made in the moment about what to film. What to do. The kids so unaware.

Though my thoughts are too clouded by the thrill of the fact of the content, I feel that this is something I would really have like to have made. I have no idea critically where it's coming from, really. But, I just think it's fantastic that someone thinks it's important, I guess because I think it's important too.

Actually, i forget that's all it is.

I think it's important + I'm happy someone else does too.

Lots of things in this video are important to me: Bowie, children, hero-worship, imitation, active listening to music, especially with images, the desire to turn it up, to learn the words, to recreate, to become the pop star, to embody what is great about what you are seeing. The appeal of Bowie's music to a necessarily uneducated, underexposed ear. The play acting in the video and in life. An obsession. Sibling-esque interaction. The importance of the music to the boy, who has so few cultural references yet (he can't be over 5) yet it already means something. What can it mean? Why does he want to watch it so badly?

Ubuweb says, "Through both writing and visual art, Frances Stark addresses the conditions of creative labor, producing candid and affecting work about the nature of artistic practice and the corresponding yet integral banality of the everyday. The artist’s body of work stands as a self-reflexive inquiry into the process of artistic production, and the often-elided demands of daily life."

And then that throws up; are they her kids? Why are they being entertained with the computer on the bed? This is something that has been done before- my 2 year-old niece does it to Nicky Minaj (she has not such great taste)

Oh I'm instantly a fan.