Space Program

Combining video, installation, sculpture, and performance, I attempt to reverse-engineer the connections that link cosmic-scale sagas to everyday life. In so doing, I put bodies (often my own) in situations that tinker with the placement of those bodies in systems, narratives, and regimens that regulate their agency, influence, and dis/connection. When producing these projects, I embrace what I call an “aesthetics of the necessary,” which describes the practical and unselfconscious design decisions made by the likes of NASA Lunar Roving Vehicle engineers, Wile E. Coyote, “do-it-yourself” repairpersons, and anyone else who aims to solve a problem with whatever resources are close at hand. I am a time-space mechanic, a wily bricoleur. My work can be disorienting, comical, contemplative, or critical. It can be all of these at once. It can become something else entirely.