In Every Dream Home a Heartache

Kids on TV and Johannes Zits have together created a music video art piece based on Johannes’ visual work and the song “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” performed by Kids on TV. The video takes the song’s plotline of a rich man falling in love with a rubber doll and uses it to critique queer consumerism and the advertising industry’s targeting of the gay-demographic — turning peoples desires into a fetishization of newly built condos and lavish funishings. The rubber doll is portrayed by KOTV member John Caffery is covered with green-screen paint and super-imposed with gay male pornography by Johannes. KOTV’s Minus Smile sings the part of the protagonist whose alienation eventually drives him mad with affection for the artificial playmate. The barren white space in which the wandering plot occurs is ambiguously superimposed with advertising, store-room furnishings and palatial homes from architecture magazines — leaving the viewer to wonder how imaginary his dreamhome is.