Curated by Satpreet Kahlon for Deep Space Gallery
Spring 2011
"Torn Map House" was a week-long installation and transaction that attempted to invert the conventional relationship between audience and site, between my work and site, between myself and site. Both as a fleeting shelter and a studio, the gallery space offered opportunities for public transactions: a tea house, an invitation to draw an onion and place it in a suitcase, the occasion to bring a vessel of some kind and have your portrait taken while holding it, to barter for art, materials, food and books (a take it or leave it system), and to view and take part in performance: sawing the mattress in half, being wrapped in a cocoon of rope and sealing a suitcase with wax.
Throughout the week, I made an effort to be as present in the gallery as possible: burning incense, playing music, drawing my share of onions on a slate tablet, eating and sharing food, reading and writing while seated on a mat on the floor; I practiced yoga, changed my clothing, and placed the peels and casings of clementines and edamame on the window ledge. One of my favorite moments of this show was when alandscape architect came by and adorned the arc of a kiln shelf with lettuce from her lunch in exchange for a necklace I had made from rusted compression stems and copper cable.
An international show of 70 photographs.
All photographs were donated and installed for three weeks in a greenhouse in Dryden, NY. Daily operations of the greenhouse continued around the photographs, covering them in water, dew and plant matter.
OR TELL ME HOW | gouache, paper, house paint, tea, turmeric, pomegranate, ink on laminate wood cards | cards measure 3" x 2.75” installation dimensions variable
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In Search of Conjunctions
Group Show with: Demian DinéYazhi’, Kerry Downey, Ellen Lesperance + Sara Osebold
The Alice Gallery, Seattle Washington
February 2016
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I also was the writer-in-residence for this group show. You can listen to a recording of this piece here.
Public Installation in Ithaca, New York | paper, ink, graphite, plastic, hemp chord | dimensions variable | 2011
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. -Roland Barthes
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This public project involved the physical dissipation of thirty-four love letters that were placed in transparent bags filled with creek water and tied along the chipped green railing of a canal. It was both lovely and strange to watch the words that used to both “seduce and wound me," dissolve, sometimes lifting in ribbons of ink, so calmly. After a week of watching people examine and sometimes attemp to read the letters, I walked down the canal in the dark, stabbing each bag with a pin— the letters were no longer so potent or the mourning was over.
If you were to sing to me right now about the space between, it would certainly be enough.
Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | Fall 2009
hemp, plastic, orange peels, hair, lentils, bamboo, rice, ink, pills, water| 8' x 9' | Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY | Spring 2010
