Blind Country

This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country of blind people and attempts to dominate their sensual feminine culture with his male sight-derived power. Following this theme "Blind Country" begins with animated fruit dancing over Mike Kelley's body and the admonition of "Northerners" to "refill the quickly emptying sack." In the male-dominated land of the North candy-spurting pinatas stand as phallic symbols. Presumably castrated and stripped of his authority Kelley acts the buffoon as he is led through the murky land of the South a "female" earthy "realm of the senses" opposing the phallocentric world of the North.