Installation
My installation pieces are active environments often filled with pedagogical experiments, guided meditation sessions, analog television episodes, teaching environments, and video projections.
Critenactment & Symposium Installation
digitally faked slide projector demonstration from scenes of Critenactment are displayed on walls, and visitors are asked to participate in mini group discussions about the educational information presented to them. Complete transcripts from symposium session titled Situation: Art School (Pratt Institute campus 2015) - six hour symposium featuring New York educators and artists discussing the merits of an art education. Also included on a podium sculpture with a television screen installed into it - Interview with Self.
Anti-Thesis
Meditation sessions, chrysalis to butterfly habitat installed in gallery space, TV set filming of audition to The Fall, one day session where I only typed out my thoughts and projected them against the wall connected through my laptop. This was the programming for the entire week of my anti-thesis, in which I produced nothing new for the "show". And kept the gallery fairly empty most of the time. I came in to tend to the butterflies. I came in to film a TV episode on one day. I came in to meditate for the entire 8 hour sitting schedule on another and conducted guided meditations for friends and visitors. On a critique day, I spoke not one word the whole entire day while I typed out real time thoughts and communicated with visitors only through these membrane.
Meditation
In a space that I occupied in the basement of an academic building and for a site specific installation class, I filmed myself meditating for hours at a time within the space (without windows) and a completely empty space. This television video display was the culminating installation showing a frontal and face view of my breathing and meditation sped up. Words appear across my face to indicate the emotions that arise as I meditated in the space for about a solid two weeks time.
Dharma Talk to Self
A video projection piece where an elevated monk character hovers over still images of 1970's Hong Kong, Thai Buddhist temple, the intersection of 6th Ave and 23rd street aerial view, and a generic aircraft flying through clouds. There is no sound in this piece, but the monk character is reciting a personalized Dharma Talk to Self. Various parts of the video are subtitled in Chinese.