BMB con. is a collective based around the duo of Roelf Toxopeus and Justin Bennett. They make time-based live and site-specific art, playing with the relationship between audience, performers and environment, whether that environment is a forest, a residential area or an interactive media system. They make and present their work in both cultural and natural landscapes.
The designer Joe Marner spent months digging through their visual archives - more than 30 years-worth of photographs, videos, drawings, computer print-outs, scores and flyers. The result is “Attention all Zookeepers” - up until now BMB con. has never performed in a zoo.
This work is composed of screenshots from publicly available YouTube videos, all uploaded with a click of a button on old iPod touches (2009–2012), most with only a handful of views. I captured stills by randomly searching filenames like “IMG_0001” and “IMG_0238,” then paired each image with a brief description of the accompanying sound, as expanded upon in the booklet.
These stills, gathered from hundreds of anonymous sources, are rearranged as poetic fragments: traces of digital intimacy, ambient storytelling, and ephemeral moments. By removing the images from their original context and pairing them with captions and quiet reflections, the work explores how subtle gestures and anonymous visuals carry memory, mood, and meaning.
All material is used under fair use and quotation rights for non-commercial, transformative artistic purposes. Faces are largely absent or incidental.