WAS HERE, 2022
installation: ~ 12 X 60 X 100 feet DSM Dyneema on Croatan, Roanoke, Lumbee Land
Coastal Studies Institute Interdisciplinary collaboration with Dr. David Lagomasino. Documentation via drone, helicopter, RTK, and TLS.
––– Kudzu + Connectivity, 2021
Interactive Installation: 30X10X20ft., DSM Dyneema on Tuscarora Land, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences at Greenville, NC.
Public Workshop:
co-taught with Biologist Dr. Carol Goodwillie, retting and harvesting baste fiber from local kudzu
Educational Zine: do-designed with Adam Berman
Awarded funding and project development support through ECU’s Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy.
Documentation of event promotion, installation progress,
workshop, zine layout.
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––– A World In Song, 2019
~40 X 60 X 30 feet; Various Fibers Installed and dressed performance by Cages (Nola Ranallo and Dave Bailey) and collaborators.
One evening benefiting Crisis Services at Asbury Hall (Hallwalls/Righteous Babe Records), Buffalo, NY.
Documentation of event, installation progress,
program.
––– Looming Resonance, 2018
performance: 13 minutes; installation: 4 X 6 X 12 feet
2 Macomber floor looms, audio equipment, physical interactions, steel, polymers Looming Resonance was a collaboration with Mark Vaughn, building an instrument from tension built between two floor looms
Performed with: Mark Vaughn, Clay Davidson, Chris Poovey (UNT College of Music), and Abby Sherrill (UNT College of Visual Arts and Design).
stills from performance
––– Architectural Intersections, 2017
installation: 4 X 7 X 12 feet
Interdisciplinary collaboration utilizing video, dental plaster, medical latex tubing, polymer fibers
As a Rob R. Dunn Artist in Residence, I collaborated with Biologist Adrian Smith at Smith's lab in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences throughout the year of 2017. We located and cast a Pogonomyrmex ant nest in dental plaster as part of an installation in the lab; art and science research developed side by side and in conversation. This collaboration culminated in a presentation at NCMNS's Science Cafe and an article in SciArt magazine.
SCIENCE CAFE at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
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––– mymisogyny, 2018
public call with performance: 3 weeks and 20 minutes, respectively
paper, ink, water, drum machine beats, vocals
mymisogyny was a public call and performance at the Carrack Modern.
For the duration of work withwater 01, a prompt was presented to the viewer to consider ways in which they have negatively judged someone based on traits or actions deemed feminine.
Responses were written anonymously and left to be read aloud by the artist in a closing reading accompanied by beats.
Once a response was read aloud, it was wrapped around a rock and left to sink in the basin of work withwater 01.
––– wishing web, 2015
12 X 12 X 80 ft., polymer-based baling twine
Created while in residence at the Musk Ox Farm (palmer AK), Wishing Web was made of surplus twine from 500+ bales of hay that help feed this herd of once-endangered animals through the winter.
The public is asked to consider ways to support one another through hard seasons, to write and tie these wishes to the installation throughout the summer.
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(also see: FACILITATIONS: Landfalls; songs of... \ my misogyny
COLLABORATIONS: looming resonance \ Resound \ Consensus Reality )
––– cheers, since 2016 cheers was first performed with a drumset at LUMP gallery in January 2017, Raleigh, NC. (stills below)
cheers at J and J's Pizza, Denton TX 2019
17 minute set, single channel video, performance: vocals, drum machine, keyboard
Excerpt from set: PASSWORD=consumer
––– stripped ease, 2019
~00:12:00; single channel video, edition of 3: spoken word and cropped photograph
Fragments of a black+white film image
(feminine human figure embracing a deer carcass on a barren, snow-laced landscape) loop on screen simulating an analog slide show.
Texts by the artist, Baudrillard, Gibson, and others are read to place the image in conversation with power dynamics of objectification and violent religious imagery.
––– canary, 2017
7 minutes, looped; projection of digital video
Constructed objects move through a void, projected in the interior of a stationary moving truck; University of North Carolina at Greensboro's ArtTruck.
These actions loop continually, connecting recent discoveries in Physics concerning the weight of a bird in flight while in a contained space,
and the frantic futility of the 'canaries in the coalmine' leading up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and 2017 Inauguration.
installation view
stills from video
––– THFCKNGLAND, 2014
26 minute performance; digital documentation in single shot video THFCKNGLAND pits ideas of femininity and masculinity against each other through one human body interacting with a processed landscape.
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