Saturday
May122018
Durational Devices website
(2018)
Durational Devices I-V will be performed at the Marble Block Building at 129 Maine Street in Biddeford, Maine, on consecutive Fridays from June 29–July 27, 5:00-7:00pm.
Entries in video performance (23)
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Friday
Nov272015
Footfall
(Faroe Islands, The Outer Hebrides, 2011)
stills from single channel video, shot on location in Faroe Islands and The Outer Hebrides.
Saturday
Feb192011
Surface Tension
(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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Thursday
Jan202011
Night Vision
(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.
Monday
May102010
Tidal Culture: Part IV
Latitude 63.402N / Longitude –19.037W
(Iceland, 2009) single channel HD video, 1 hour
Algae does not honor human-established boundaries. I’m interested in using the ocean and algae as metaphor and investigatory tool for asking questions pertaining to identity, influence and isolation.
Monday
May102010
Tidal Culture: Part III
Latitude 65.570N / Longitude –37.890W
(Greenland, 2009) single channel HD video, 1 hour
I witness each site in durational sittings, which are documented by one-hour videos, shot continuously with no edit cuts. My particular positions on the edge of the world are intended to question personal perspective and to invite dialogue between one place and another.
Thursday
Jan142010
Overlap
(2009) New York, site-oriented performance, 2 hours
collaboration with Ling-Wen Tsai
Thursday
Jan142010
one/another
(2009) single channel HD video, 18 minutes,
collaboration with Ling-Wen Tsai
Thursday
Jan142010
Tidal Culture: Part II
Latitude 49.678N / Longitude –54.820W
(Newfoundland, 2007) single channel HD video, 1 hour
The act of sitting at a shoreline, observing the ocean may seem unremarkable. I'm concerned with what is not readily visible; what takes place over time; and how states of mind, like conditions of the earth, require time to experience, observe and understand.
Tuesday
Jan052010
Then, now and again
(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.
Monday
Jan042010
Tidal Culture: Part I
Latitude 43.586N / Longitude –70.202W
(Maine, 2005) single channel HD video, 1 hour
I’m drawn to these landscapes for their character— sometimes austere, sometimes lush, often connoting isolation.
Friday
Jan012010
Transparent Gestures I, II, and III
(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".
Friday
Jan012010
(un)rest
(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.