TV Party Tonight (2009), installation: metal coffin replica, video & audio cassette tapes, dvd-video loop, vintage television, multicolor-light, painted carboard tube, fog machine, silver garland, digital prints, japanese gel air freshener.
Another collaborative project by John Fanning and Glenn DiLando as TrillHaus, this installation for the exhibition "Death & Destruction" at ellO gallery in January 2009 features a full-size replica of a coffin found in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere (Rollinsford, New Hampshire) that plays host to a vintage television and various video and audio cassettes that are strung from the coffin & it's surrounding are to the ceiling and back down again to a painted cardboard tube. The tapes which unwind from the coffin-area are pulled in unison by the participant 6 times to bring good luck (subsequently filling the cardboard tube with leftover tape). The idea of tape-media being the main focus of the project is an exploration of the methods of destruction of once fresh media, while the television is a reminder of the upcoming death of analog signal technology as digital television will take over analog signals in the U.S. in February 2009. A special hidden participatory element is a fog machine that when activated by the participant emits a slightly cliché fog that curls out of the inside of the coffin. A short video loop plays on the TV, starting initially with what seems like regular static only to be interrupted with an extracted & modified scene from Mexican panic-cinema film "Alucarda" that multiplies over and over until it then quickly vanishes back to the static. The 2 first prints from Fanning's "Morbidly Aesthetic" series of death/black/grind-metal logos mashed together fills the back wall above the coffin.
Below are photos of the installation as well as the looped video used on the television.