Dusty Bucket
Moodiv8: The Ringleader
Pleasure and peace, comrades.
This video was made as a part of the installation "Four Futures," a collaboration with Maelstrom Collaborative Arts in October 2021. It appeared on a screen next to a projection of another video, so this is a stand-alone edit.
My comrades and I were in a group representing the "communist future" where we are post-scarcity and post-hierarchy. Moodiv8 is the app operated by a "mood ring" available for the audience to take, along with a filter available to use on Instagram to check the levels of your 8 main moods. Moodiv8 broadcasts the complexity of your emotions, where the Ringleader reports on the highest levels of each mood.
Written, performed, shot, and edited by me, Cassandra Harner. Audio by Naomi Columna. Graphic design by Kate Atherton. Also in our commune: Poetry and voice by Bri Armstrong, and dance by Martinique Mims. Our great leader was Emily Liptow. Our overlord was Jeremy Paul. The other futures, Socialism, Rentism, and Exterminism, had their own *chrono* installations in the space as well. Balance and wellness to all.