Jonathan Monaghan

Disco Beast follows a psychedelic unicorn wandering through empty commercial spaces, such as an abandoned shopping mall and a luxury hotel lobby. The work references both medieval iconography, such as the well known tapestries of a unicorn in captivity, and its appearance in popular culture to build a new mythology about modern confinement by technology and materialism. The unicorn as a symbol of otherworldliness in discord with banal, corporate spaces in the piece elicits anxieties about globalization and consumerism. A series of sculptures related to the video installation were also created.