Clifton Childree
Yank-E-Dick rag
2008
found material, motors...
Scott Joplin's Yank-E-Dick rag appears to be an old run down masturbation arcade machine that barely still functions. A banjo rendition of a rag song plays (banjo gives it more of an arcade feel than a piano recording would) and a black man's hand and forearm moves in a jerk off motion. There is also a grove in the hand to place your weiner. Lighting is animated as well as there is spinning plate inside the upper chamber with musical notes cut out of it. The light shines through these cutouts projecting musical notes on to the machine and floor below. The object of this game is to squirt your stuff into the megaphone where a bell hangs. The banjo recording includes also a man's laughter which both fade in and out as if the recording is warped.
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