I am invested in the idea that small actions can have a poetic, transformative resonance.
My work is interdisciplinary and distributed across various sites, physical and virtual. A single project might take place online, in the street and in a gallery, and involve multiple audiences participating in different ways for different reasons. Many of my projects are collaboratively authored - by iKatun, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things, or other people and groups that I have worked with. We develop projects in response to a particular site and temporal context (a public video screen in Harvard Square, a festival that lasts 11 days, an exhibition on eBay, and so on). These contexts are important to understand, or imagine, if you are just looking at the documentation.
I focus on the humorous, imaginative gesture - on taking a performative leap to try to research something in the real world. How many breaths does it take to evacuate Boston? What would the city of Cambridge look like if we could all rename its public places right now? What do the spaces between our words sound like? What does the weather on my body look like? How can you measure fear? I stage encounters between different audiences as a research strategy to answer these questions. The encounters may be small or go unnoticed, but they resonate together in the archives generated by the project. These archives take the form of performances, sculptures, websites, books, maps, audio CDs or videos. Each project reinforces the (perhaps romantic, perhaps true) notion that a small, imaginative gesture can offer up alternative political and aesthetic ways of being together.
