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RECENT WORK
A video installation featuring video from three Port Huron Project reenactments.
A single-channel video remake of a scene from J-L Godard's La Chinoise (1967) in which a radical student contemplates bombing a university. The original scene took place on a train. This version takes place online.
A performance/installation at Exhibition, a temporary artist-run space in New York City. Legendary New York guitarist André Lassalle played a cover of Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock performance of the Star Spangled Banner for a small audience. Video of the performance was composited with a contemporary photograph the Woodstock site and projected onto a gallery wall.
One of a series of collages, and prints based on collages, made while I was working on the Port Huron Project. This print is quite large (about six feet high) and,
like the others, it includes a mix of archival and contemporary ephemera on found carboard. The prints have a tromp-l'oeil quality: it's hard to tell they aren't actually collages.
Installation at the Park Avenue Armory
A video installation featuring video from three Port Huron Project reenactments was exhibited in "Democracy in America," a major exhibition, participatory project space, and meeting hall curated by Nato Thompson and organized by Creative Time at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
A series of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the Vietnam era. Each event took place at the site of the original speech, and was delivered by an actor or performance artist to an audience of invited guests and passers-by. Curated by Nato Thompson and produced by Creative Time with support from Creative Capital.
I screened excerpts from We Are Also Responsible: Cesar Chavez 1971/2008 and The Liberation of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008 from The Port Huron Project on MTV's oversized HD screen in Times Square as a part of Creative Time's At 44 1/2 project.
National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
According to curator Lee Wells, this exhibition "brought together a unique comparison of some of today's most engaging top young contemporary video and Internet artists who all infuse their work with a strong socio-cultural critique."
print version