“Nostalgia and romanticizing the past,” writes curator Lauren Fournier, “feature in queer artist Evan Tyler’s performance and video work. In his video, I’M FULL OF MYSELF (2017), Tyler gives a highly performative, humorous self-help lecture at the Danforth Music Hall in the role of the Life Coach, a self-branded motivational speaker, performance artist, spiritual psychiatrist, and violently charismatic persuader from 1992.” The video was shot in VHS, appropriating nineties analogue television aesthetics. Presented as a parody, Tyler’s performance further draws on the over-the-top theatricality of TV therapists or televangelists, which gained traction in the nineties. Their popularity and demand reflected a rise in social anxiety and our dependence on technology, marking the start of an increasingly mediated reality. The video begins with Tyler introducing himself to an audience applauding off-screen, thanking them for being with him “right now, here, today in the present.” His very ironic emphasis on the present moment operates through multiple registers of space and temporality: His 2017 performance refers back to a specific moment in the past, which would have also been televised after the fact with a temporally and physically distant viewership. By stressing the present tense, Tyler wryly reminds us of the conspicuous gap in space, time, context, connection, and so forth, critiquing the very institution life coaches or self-help gurus.