Steve Kurtz Waiting, 2007
- description: Video (15:23)
(in collaboration with Jim Fetterley)
Steve Kurtz Waiting is a portrait of the Buffalo-based artist Steve Kurtz in the purgatory of ongoing litigations stemming from allegations of bioterrorism. In critiquing the post-9/11 national security panic, he earned himself the label of a national security threat. A series of informal interviews with Kurtz is intertwined with animated screen captures of online news accounts of Steve Kurtz’s arrest. The video highlights how the federal government’s traditional local media campaign was outmaneuvered by Kurtz’s savvy internet-propagated grassroots campaign. The video takes up this mantle in a short format that is easily adaptable to internet dissemination.