Crash Me, Gently is an interactive installation, this time transforming a kiss into a crash. Here a vintage television loops a video of the artist kissing himself which transforms into a smooth Hollywood kiss when the faces meet. Viewers are invited to accelerate a foot pedal placed in front of the TV which increases the intensity of the images, causing them to become more cinematic, but also increasingly disjointed, pornographic, and violent. Here, the viewer becomes complicit in the hunt for more exaggerated representations of “love” mimicking the insatiable hunger for more extreme content embedded in our internet

culture. The immediate result of pressing the pedal and being bombarded with these sensual scenes is perversely satisfying but also questions the way desire can be aroused by representations while never truly being satisfied.