Made in response to the site it was first exhibited, a gallery situated in an
underground car park in Sydney's Kings Cross.
Extending the universe of their Videodromes for the Alone series, in Amputee of the neurotic future, the artist considers the perverse technology of the home video recordings ubiquitous to their childhood. A performance, excised from the artist’s recorded adolescence, becomes fractured and dismembered when assembled and entrapped in a future space alongside a collection of decapitated fragments of footage including one of the artist’s parent’s trophy Ford Mustang (1988). This dystopian space alludes to J.G Ballard’s infamous novel Crash (1972), and extends the artist’s obsession with the strange psychology attached to home movies and Ballard’s dictum that ‘nothing is real until you put it in the VCR’.