The exhibition, Video, and book project “Generalized Hospitals: The LukeLuke and LauraLaura Story… Just One More Thing!” is the latest collaboration by Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns including videos, sculptures, print and jigsaw puzzle reliefs reframing elements of nostalgic popular culture into contemporary dialogue with ecological concerns,televisual relationships, and interspecies relationships.
Characters from soap operas and sequential art are reimagined and recontextualized to consider new potential mutations and cohabitations to thrive in a changing environment. Transformation is unboxed and solicited through multiple puzzle pieces and videos interweaving recognizable characters from television commingled with their new variants. Technologies of science and forecasted ritual suggest ways that characters may merge human and non-human characteristics into new bodies of possibility.