Your camera roll is a graveyard. This artist turned hers into a funeral.
DUMP_out through the mouth_ , a video work from artist Tako Taal for Tramway TV, borrows its form from image dumps, slideshows, and ‘catch-up’ or ‘previously on’ segments at the start of TV dramas. Using a bank of images taken on her camera phone over the past five years, Taal's work speaks to feelings of being at capacity, and of fatigue and frustration. ‘Dump’ is a word that imitates a sound, as well as a form of back-up after a system failure, something that Taal identifies through her work as a ‘catalogue of what could be lost.' (source, Tramway TV, Instagram)
Direction
Taal weaponizes the boring aesthetics of corporate presentations.
Editing
Phone photos as elegy — the 'previously on' format hollowed out.
Director
Tako Taal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taal belongs to a generation of artists treating the phone camera as both diary and burden — her 'dump' format mirrors how we actually consume images: desperately, endlessly, without closure.
The title's double meaning — excretion and data backup — captures something brutal about late-capitalist creativity: your overflow is also your archive, your shit is your legacy.
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