ARK 3: CROSSOVER CHRONICLES 3, is the third installment of Burns and Martin’s ARK 3 series that is a variable installation, and single-channel video project. The title takes its name from an obscure and short-lived children’s television series named Ark II from 1976 where a group of young scientists accompanied by a talking chimpanzee attempt to bring new hope to a post-apocalyptic world that has been ravaged by pollution and waste. Crossover takes on multiple meanings as another live action series, Land of the Lost mixes into the underappreciated pre-historic caverns in the center of a spectral amusement park. Speculative emissaries greet global destinations of ritual to be shared. Tourists and televisual history co-mingle, vying for their own survival through manifested selfie pics. Other ancestral simulations take the form of Burn’s Wiccan mother and Martin’s gay cop father, both of whom act as spirit guides to the future ARK3 explorers.
