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ABOUT
Artist Statement
Bio
CV
Director's Portfolio
Directing Reel
Acting Reel
Community
Links & Contact
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
CURRENT PROJECTS
Fairy Prince
FILM
Portent Soul
TestoLupron
Dance Dance Resolution
PONY
SUNRIDER
PATRICK
Valentine's Day After
Hold
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
VIDEO
Your Love is Giving Me Life
The French Chef with Julia Child: Abortifacient Herbs
BE NOT AFRAID
One Made of Light
Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (Excerpt)
aph·ro·dis·i·ac
POLLINATION
Fruitr
VARIETY SHOW
Yellow Mountain Blue
Wait
8 1/2 INCH DICK
Eco Vignettes
Vagina Dentata
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
LIVE ART
Planet Femme LIVE
GRIEF IN PUBLIC
QUEER in PUBLIC
SENSE
Pleasure Scores
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
LIVE PERSONAE
Karan Devine
Home Depot
TORMENTRA
Crystal Mermaid
Black-Eyed Susan
Evangeline Dupree
Cleo the Past Teller
Cynthia Reid
Polyperformance
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
WORLDBUILDING
Planet Femme
The Sagewell Archives
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
CURATION
WINDOWS AND BLINDS
PONY and Friends
Positive Futures
AUTO ROBO ECO
ASYLUM
UNDER THE SEAMS RUNS THE PAIN
This Literally Happened
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
FEATURED
2024
USC Libraries
USC Cinematic Arts - iMappening 2024
ARTFORUM
CAA 112th Annual Conference
MA+P Stories - WINDOWS AND BLINDS
2023
Deadline
2am Photography
2022
Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism
Trans Cinematic Universe Podcast
World of Rex Podcast
Queer Forty
GAY.IT
LA Weekly
The Hollywood Times
Out News Global
TRANSlations (Panel)
Women's Screenwriters Workshop (Panel)
2021
Final Draft Blog
TFMA News
Deadline
2020
PGN - Film
PGN - Portraits
cinéSPEAK
Women and Hollywood
Summer Fall
Global Shorts
Temple News
2019
Business Courier
Vox Populi (Exhibition)
Vox Populi (Screening)
2017
GO Magazine
2016
purple ART
2015
PACKET
Adult Mag
KCHUNG
Sex-Ed @BHQFU
2014
The Brooklyn Rail
Nocountrycountry on bel-air radio
Labor Day Lectures
2013
artcritical
NOWHERE

A series of ecological performances and video projects, 2013–2014.

Otter Sleeps
, 2014.

A series of ecological performances and video projects, 2013–2014.

Otter Sleeps
, 2014.

Otter Sleeps
, projected as part of a video night curated by Andrea McGinty at BHQFU in 2015.

Charon's Obol (Yuri Yuri)
, 2013.

This video was projected in 2014 at Patarei Prison in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of The Penitentiary: Battery Project.

Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. The custom is primarily associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans, though it is also found in the ancient Near East.

Charon's Obol (Yuri Yuri)
, 2013.

This video was projected in 2014 at Patarei Prison in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of The Penitentiary: Battery Project.

Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. The custom is primarily associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans, though it is also found in the ancient Near East.

Charon's Obol (Yuri Yuri) installed at Patarei Penitentiary as part of "The Penitentiary: Battery Project" in 2014.

Process shot from Charon's Obol (Yuri Yuri), 2013.

I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up
, 2014.

Exhibited at Silvershed Open Studio, March 2014.

I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up
, 2014.

Exhibited at Silvershed Open Studio, March 2014.

Event link here.

December 29, 1986
, 2013.

December 29, 1986
, 2013.

Nina Pneuma
, 2013.

Nina Pneuma
, 2013.


“To Search” was a durational performance I conducted on Saturday, August 3rd, 2013, at NOWHERE, a storefront gallery in Antonito, CO. Immediately prior to the performance, I collected rocks from the earth around  NOWHERE, and, over the course of two hours and 13 minutes, proceeded to arrange the rocks to spell the phrase, “TO SEARCH IN THE ENIGMA OF HOURS FOR THAT TRULY HIDDEN SEED,” excerpted from a tablet in Franck André Jamme’s *New Exercises ’08*: “TO SEARCH IN THE ENIGMA OF HOURS FOR THE TRULY HIDDEN SEED THAT NO SOONER PULVERIZED BECOMES THE BREAD OF THOSE WHO EAT NOT TO PERISH.” After each word was composed it was immediately erased, the rocks returning to the pile. Behind the action was an hour-long projection of found images that I had composed, featuring a range of imagery—meat in an abattoir, gloved hands gluing a vase back together, a black and white performance of two hands relating, a diagram of the entrance and exit wound of a bullet, diagrams of the eye, ear and tear duct, the braces-filled mouth of a smiling teen, dressed-up people dancing, and so on. Playing on loop during the performance was a specially composed soundscape by Taja Cheek, featuring crickets, crackling fire, looped piano, waves, wordless vocals, bird calls, guitar riffs and rain. The sounds swell up and fade out over one another, until all becomes quiet. During the performance the loop occurred just over 13 times. After the performance was over, the rocks were returned to the Antonito earth.


"To Search" is a meditation on transience and effort, and on the conscience experience of emerging from and being called back into the Source. As each word is fully formed and erased, it becomes difficult to recall the sentence as a whole; one considers whether this matters, whether actions should be taken in sequence, as a kind of story, or as indelible moments in an utterly transient landscape. Poignantly, NOWHERE’s storefront location where she conducted the performance closed a few weeks later. This performance was documented in EMERGENCY INDEX 2014.


Special thanks to Taja Cheek, Laurelin Kruse, Ronald Rael, The Museum of Nowhere, Kochia, The Hat-Tippin’ Cowboy, and Paul’s Special at G6.


TO SEARCH
, 2013.

TO SEARCH
, 2013.

To Search
[documentation of performance], 2013.

NOWHERE Gallery on Main Street in Antonito, CO, 2013.

TO SEARCH 
in EMERGENCY INDEX 2013.

A series of ecological performances and video projects, 2013–2014.

Otter Sleeps
, 2014.

Otter Sleeps
, projected as part of a video night curated by Andrea McGinty at BHQFU in 2015.

Charon's Obol (Yuri Yuri)
, 2013.

This video was projected in 2014 at Patarei Prison in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of The Penitentiary: Battery Project.

Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. The custom is primarily associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans, though it is also found in the ancient Near East.

Charon's Obol (Yuri Yuri) installed at Patarei Penitentiary as part of "The Penitentiary: Battery Project" in 2014.

Process shot from Charon's Obol (Yuri Yuri), 2013.

I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up
, 2014.

Exhibited at Silvershed Open Studio, March 2014.

Event link here.

December 29, 1986
, 2013.

Nina Pneuma
, 2013.


“To Search” was a durational performance I conducted on Saturday, August 3rd, 2013, at NOWHERE, a storefront gallery in Antonito, CO. Immediately prior to the performance, I collected rocks from the earth around  NOWHERE, and, over the course of two hours and 13 minutes, proceeded to arrange the rocks to spell the phrase, “TO SEARCH IN THE ENIGMA OF HOURS FOR THAT TRULY HIDDEN SEED,” excerpted from a tablet in Franck André Jamme’s *New Exercises ’08*: “TO SEARCH IN THE ENIGMA OF HOURS FOR THE TRULY HIDDEN SEED THAT NO SOONER PULVERIZED BECOMES THE BREAD OF THOSE WHO EAT NOT TO PERISH.” After each word was composed it was immediately erased, the rocks returning to the pile. Behind the action was an hour-long projection of found images that I had composed, featuring a range of imagery—meat in an abattoir, gloved hands gluing a vase back together, a black and white performance of two hands relating, a diagram of the entrance and exit wound of a bullet, diagrams of the eye, ear and tear duct, the braces-filled mouth of a smiling teen, dressed-up people dancing, and so on. Playing on loop during the performance was a specially composed soundscape by Taja Cheek, featuring crickets, crackling fire, looped piano, waves, wordless vocals, bird calls, guitar riffs and rain. The sounds swell up and fade out over one another, until all becomes quiet. During the performance the loop occurred just over 13 times. After the performance was over, the rocks were returned to the Antonito earth.


"To Search" is a meditation on transience and effort, and on the conscience experience of emerging from and being called back into the Source. As each word is fully formed and erased, it becomes difficult to recall the sentence as a whole; one considers whether this matters, whether actions should be taken in sequence, as a kind of story, or as indelible moments in an utterly transient landscape. Poignantly, NOWHERE’s storefront location where she conducted the performance closed a few weeks later. This performance was documented in EMERGENCY INDEX 2014.


Special thanks to Taja Cheek, Laurelin Kruse, Ronald Rael, The Museum of Nowhere, Kochia, The Hat-Tippin’ Cowboy, and Paul’s Special at G6.


TO SEARCH
, 2013.

To Search
[documentation of performance], 2013.

NOWHERE Gallery on Main Street in Antonito, CO, 2013.

TO SEARCH 
in EMERGENCY INDEX 2013.