(NYC, 2010) performance: graphite line drawn over the course of 2 hours,
covering approximately 144 inches
Performed December 9, 2010 at Pelavin Gallery, NYC
Performance in response to "Anxieties and Alienations" (painting by Kate Beck)
"Surface Tension" represents the first public viewing of my "Durational Devices" series
(2010-ongoing)
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(2010) projected HD single-channel video + solo performance
Premiered on the occasion of the Maine Arts Commission Awards Ceremony,
October 29, 2010
The video component of this work was shot during the 2010 Autumnal Equinox from the Maine shoreline, facing easterly over the Atlantic Ocean. A relatively still, prone performance with a live audio component accompanies and echoes ambient sounds from the video.
(2009) New York, site-oriented performance, 2 hours
collaboration with Ling-Wen Tsai
(2009) single channel HD video, 18 minutes,
collaboration with Ling-Wen Tsai
(2006) single-channel video, 4 minutes
Voice, touch and repetition act as mnemonic devices for human contact and the passing of time, while the turned back (or facelessness) hints at anonymity and isolation. The use of the triptych reflects past, present and future while the soundtrack of bedtime lullabies, sung by an older woman, creates tension between tender care and naked vulnerability.
(2005) single channel video, three monitors, 10 minutes each
Transparent Gestures documents the development of three 36”x36” drypoint and carborundum plexiglas plates. Each plate reflects a specific wiping gesture (vertical, circular and horizontal). The repetitive and hypnotic nature of these gestures reflects state of mind while scale investigates both the limitations and possibilities of personal "reach".
(2004) single-channel video, 3 minutes
Through multiple video windows, we witness a pillow being transformed. Function, content and perspective are questioned through the process of redefining form. What was once a pillow—an article of daily living and a repository for rest and subconscious thought—is transmuted into a vessel with renewed and redefined, yet indeterminate, function.
(2004) single channel video, 2 minutes
The surface of the body, which includes hair, acts as a signifier of “border”…between self and others…between what is internal and what is external…between what is personal and what is social. Personal Terrain uses the tactile nature of hair as metaphor for topography, geography and territory.
(Rajasthan and Gujarat, India; Production 1995-96; Post Production 2004) single-channel video, 3 minutes
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