Jimmy Joe Roche’s Gather Round
by One of Dan Deacon’s partners in crime is video/performance artist Jimmy Joe Roche. I saw one of Roche’s latest videos, Gather Round, this weekend at the Transmodern Festival, which consisted of the artist animatedly ‘preaching’ in front of a green screen background that shifted between color-saturated images of mountains, forests, and various other psychedelia. Though Roche seems to epitomize Baltimore at the moment with his crypto-hippie, neon-colored, absurdist mock-Americana, I have to wonder what all the fuss is about. I appreciate this latest iteration of the DIY spirit, but I get tired of the ‘just kidding’ vibe that guys like Roche and Deacon give off.
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