Fusillade, 2017
Single Channel Video
Exhibition at Swivel Gallery, New York City, New York, 2021
Conceived as a visual study in Shanghai, China, Fusillade is a series of images critiquing the audio-visual capital we consume. From the advent of television until now, we have been subscribed to spectacle after spectacle. Cochran’s film comments on the notion that this imagery is transmitted to us with such speed and fervor, that one can only feel overwhelmed. In the film the artist poses the question, has the problematization of reception further sunken society into a space of inherent meaninglessness, leading to the bigger question of how can we escape from such an isolating barrage?