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State of Verbama: Votin’ Blue, 2020, video performance, country music EP, animation, illustration, social media profile @stateofverbama, and digital photographs, duration 2min48sec
State of Verbama is an anti-racist, feminist, and queer country music band and Votin' Blue is a homemade campaign video for the 2020 US Presidential Election. This video performance and sound-based project is a collaboration with visual artists Willoughby Lucas Hastings and Thalia Berard, as personas LeRoy Hunt and Mark Maines, along with musicians Nailah Middleton, Cadmar Haynes, and Jack McLoughin.
Full EP, Verbama Nights is available on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Spotify.
https://stateofverbama.bandcamp.com/album/verbama-nights
https://soundcloud.com/stateofverbama
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Rv8FFHqRXcMwwVKLRrlDr?si=9WJ6n4HeT4Ofw32jiAciDA
Videography: Thalia Berard and Willoughby Lucas Hastings / Editing: Thalia Berard and Willoughby Lucas Hastings / Original Song: Thalia Berard / Original Composition: Cadmar Haynes / Musical Direction: Nailah Middleton / Vocals: Thalia Berard, Willoughby Lucas Hastings, Cadmar Haynes, and Nailah Middleton / Animation: Thalia Berard
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The Steaks Are Too High, Get Votin’, 2018, Video Installation and Video, duration 1min19sec
The Steaks Are Too High, Get Votin’ depicts the duplicitous character of a “Redneck Progressive” meant to imagine alternative political realities in which culture is divorced from an expected ideology, while recognizing that these personas in many cases already exist. This short video (initially meant to live online through social media) is one of a series of short homemade campaign promotions made in collaboration with Thalia Berard in support of the democratic candidates in the 2018 Midterm Elections of Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
Videography: Thalia Berard and Willoughby Lucas Hastings / Editing: Willoughby Lucas Hastings