(Video still) Performance done in White Sands, New Mexico, May 2011. It involves the artist, in costume [white dress/fox hat], smashing [6] human skulls made of gypsum with a sledgehammer. There are ritualistic and symbolic references, particularly to American culture, while reflecting on histories, human ideologies of the "pure space" and modernity. This was completed and documented five miles out into White Sands Desert. It was 90°F, humidity at 10%, mostly sunny, winds NNW at 20 mph.
May 2011
(Video still) Performance done in White Sands, New Mexico, May 2011. It involves the artist, in costume [white dress/fox hat], smashing [6] human skulls made of gypsum with a sledgehammer.
May 2011
A recorded performance done in White Sands, New Mexico, May 2011. It involves the artist, in costume [white dress/fox hat], smashing [6] human skulls made of gypsum with a sledgehammer. There are ritualistic and symbolic references, particularly to American culture, while reflecting on histories, human ideologies of the "pure space" and modernity. This was completed and documented five miles out into White Sands Desert. It was 90°F, humidity at 10%, mostly sunny, winds NNW at 20 mph.
(Detail/Still) Performance done in White Sands, New Mexico, May 2011. It involves the artist, in costume [white dress/fox hat], smashing [6] human skulls made of gypsum with a sledgehammer.
May 2011
(Detail/Still) Performance with artist throwing knives and shooting crossbow blades at a piano. Performance took place for 3 hours in an abandoned raw space - somewhere in New Jersey. The front was left open to the street where spectators can come and go. Piano was mic’d for the performance and amplified throughout the space. A generator powered everything.
Upright Piano, throwing knives and assorted blades, crossbow, microphones, amplifier, lights, generator.
Dimensions variable
2009
(Detail/Still) Performance with artist throwing knives and shooting crossbow blades at a piano.
Upright Piano, throwing knives and assorted blades, crossbow, microphones, amplifier, lights, generator.
Dimensions variable
2009
(Detail/Still) Performance with artist slowly heating individual glass objects, then quickly exposing each one to ice-cold temperatures. Full length of the performance varies anywhere from 45 min to 3 hours.
Installation view from event/happening: Laboratory (by Winkel & Balktick 2012), The Pfizer Building, Brooklyn NY
(Detail/Still) Installation view from thesis show at Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College (2008), Flushing, NY
(Video Still) Capture from performance for thesis show at Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College, Flushing, NY (2008).