«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Fame itself is impossible on YouTube because everyone's on display and the show lasts forever. Fame only works when it has an expiry date, as Warhol himself knew.Thauberger's challenging Chelsea Girls blows huge holes in the old fame game as the Vancouver artist deconstructs and demystifies Warhol's multi-hour work of the same name, the closest he ever came to a mainstream movie hit. Filmed in 1966 in eight rooms in New York's Chelsea Hotel, Warhol's Chelsea Girls shows a sexed-up coterie of Warhol Factory superstars starring in their own, imaginary private trashy Hollywood flicks. Thauberger's Chelsea Girls, shot in 2008 in Victoria's Chelsea Apartments, replicates Warhol's split-screen process as if the Vancouver artist had sampled it from the internet.

Toronto Star
April 9 2009