This installation tour is over-laid with audio from the exhibition, Bad Infinity, that utilizes samples from various media sources (including but not limited to, Max Headroom, Poppy, Kim Petras, PSAs for housewives circa 1950, Vintage Goodyear Tire commercial, etc) which speak to the legacy of our popular media perpetuating stereotypes. The audio synthesizes excerpts which speak to outright misogyny as well as those that are intentionally subverting misogynist tropes. This audio piece was originally transmitted in the exhibition over a pirated radio station, a pointed means of reclaiming space in the mindset that equity is not historically given, it is taken.
Materials: Screen printed glue flocked with static grasses and polymer clay miniatures, projected motion graphic animation.
This miniature installation references Feminist concepts from French philosopher Hélène Cixous. Cixous refers to the woman who refuses to conform to societal expectation of gender as a “defector.” This kind of identity formation which disregards the seemingly insurmountable weight of misogynist expectation, takes the ultimate imagination, one which is so brave that it defies centuries of gendered oppression to find one’s true self. Here I utilize miniature extension chords as a symbol of power. When placed in a natural environment, I am emphasizing the man-made, unnatural quality of these systems of power are in our everyday.
Materials: handmade, thermo-formed tubing, thermoformed HVAC cases, blowers, glitter, resin cast nails and screws, silicone.
All pieces of this work are handmade and installed based on a site specific arrangement of the Bolivar Gallery's floor plan. Developing a practice of on-site risk taking was a means of challenging my installation practice and inciting innovative approaches.
This work expands upon the function of an HVAC system as a symbolic means of discussing relationship dynamics. Two miniature HVAC systems of varying sizes and air flow are stand-ins for people in an unevenly weighted relationship dynamic.
While Capitalist-driven abuses of power have a more obvious impact given its over-arching effect on all of our daily lives, even the most casual relationship dynamics can insight seedier, less apparent psychological consequences if one party abuses their power over the other. The function of the HVAC in this system is abstracted as a visualization of these lines of communication, emphasizing the commonality of these abuses be means of banal symbolism.