⁂ PORTFOLIO
• Size: n/a • Medium: Double Digital Projection (Animation + LiveDraw), Ving Tsun choreography • Year: 2014
"LUMEN", Staten Island Arts, NY.
Collaboration with 0H10M1KE: Combining my text animation with his LiveDraw projection art, I performed the "Siu Nim Tao" form within the projectors' beams.
• Size: 8 x 10" • Medium: Fujichrome Provia 100F Color Slide Film (and installation) • Year: 2012
RH Gallery, New York, NY.
"Dinner For Two" collaboration with Chef Mini Kyung. Slide (1 of 8: Vegan Pizza) installed as part of the menu, in a candlelit dinner setting for two.
• Size: n/a • Medium: Performance Documentation • Year: 2011
MarinArts, Marina 59, Arverne NY.
"The Office of Local Tourism" was a travel agency for the Rockaway peninsula.
Coffee, maps, postcards, general insight, loaner bicycles, guided tours and car service, complimentary.
Research included the Kaplans' text "The Transformation of Rockaway," Queens libraries "Arverne" and "Peninsula," and countless locals.
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• Size: 4 x 6" • Medium: Postcard • Year: 2011
(as part of The Office of Local Tourism, solo performance)
Back reads: "Overlooking Head of Bay, Edgemere NY."
• Size: 4 x 6" • Medium: Postcard • Year: 2011
(as part of The Office of Local Tourism, solo performance)
Back reads: "Battery Harris East, Fort Tilden NY."
• Size: n/a • Medium: Instagram & Performance Documentation • Year: 2014
Lecce, Puglia, Italy.
Awarded the "Moving Landscape" grant and residency, I developed a body of work comprising two projects:
Mobile Library + Festa Del Ringraziamento.
Mobile Library is a collection of photography, video, and maps. It looks at the landscape of the South East; the "Crossing Keepers" of FSE and their houses; and the trains, cars, and movement in the region.
Festa Del Ringraziamento was a social space designed to host Crossing Keepers along with members of the community at large and to allow for a celebratory dinner honoring the Keepers for their service to the community. The event granted the groups the chance to socialize before and during a large a meal. I performed as the executive chef, cooking for forty Italians. The event also resulted in the construction of paper materials, such as hand-drafted invitations and decorative elements, video and audio.
• Size: Variable • Medium: C-Print (photomontage) • Year: 2010
Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn, NY.
Investigation of one's grieving process by shifting from the act of eating to the act of cooking. Created in dialog with the displaced community in Brooklyn and the Greek community in Queens.
Koliva is a traditional Greek funeral cake. Photographic documentation of (2) different Koliva cakes, above, prepared by me, with recipes from neighboring Greeks.
"AY BK" = Atlantic Yards Brooklyn (NY).
The photomontage, incorporating the cake images within a scalable grid, was printed as wallpaper for installation (in the rear of a U-haul truck) that responded to the eminent domain in the area.
Koliva was shared, from the back of the truck, with the community, as a matter of group grieving.
• Size: n/a • Medium: Performance Documentation • Year: 2010
Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn, NY.
Performance documentation of Koliva sharing. Space was a U-haul truck. Boxes represented intangible elements of displacement (per the eminent domain). Smell was burning sage. Sound was pre-recorded oud (Greek guitar). Costume was "moving man." Meal-sharing was that of Koliva, a Greek funeral cake.
• Size: 12 x 18" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2009
Sumei Art Center, Newark, NJ.
Cooking BBQ, Learning a lot about a person just by how they inspect their fingernails (palms-up versus palms-down).
• Size: 12 x 12" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2009
Sumei Art Center, Newark, NJ.
American BBQ; American Blood.
• Size: n/a • Medium: Performance Documentation • Year: 2012
Month of Performance Art - Berlin; Mauerpark, Berlin, Germany.
Esprit de Corps: Tug of war.
• Size: n/a • Medium: Performance Documentation • Year: 2012
Okazi Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
"A Wrestler's Wrestler," a collaboration with artist 0H10M1KE, is an ongoing body of work that contemplates the union of virile gestures seen in athletics and exercise with the grace movements of dance.
• Size: n/a • Medium: 2-Frame GIF animation • Year: 2012
Old Schoolhouse, Brooklyn, NY.
"A Wrestler's Wrestler," a collaboration with artist 0H10M1KE, is an ongoing body of work that contemplates the union of virile gestures found in athletics and exercise with the grace movements of dance.
'INFINITE TRAINING,' a two-frame animation constructed from documentation of live performance— photographed by Andrew Bridge— relies on the endless looping characteristic of GIF technology to emphasize the physical trials endured by the wrestler and all athletes in general."
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• Size: n/a • Medium: Performance Documentation • Year: 2010
Brooklyn College, Library Art Collection, Graduate Winner.
Collaboration with Chloë Bass, in response to Kentridge's "Dancing Couple" lithograph. Also a time lapse video.
• Size: 2 x 3" • Medium: Business Card • Year: 2011
NY OPEN Center, New York, NY.
Boardroom B&B, a fictional 'conference production' company co-founded by collaborator Chloë Bass & TJ.
Launching from the idea of lecture-as-performance, BB&B explored conference-as-framework as a means to host performance coupled with elements of hospitality.
• Size: 8.5 x 22" • Medium: Conference Agenda • Year: 2011
NY OPEN Center, New York, NY.
"Exposing The Farewell" was Boardroom B&B's inaugural conference, touting two days of performance, presentations, breakouts, meals and amenities, in New York, NY.
• Size: n/a • Medium: Performance Documentation • Year: 2011
NY OPEN Center, New York, NY.
Check-in at "Exposing The Farewell," Boardroom B&B's inaugural conference.
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2011
NY OPEN Center, New York, NY.
"Massage therapy" as hospitality amenity and conference breakout, available to clients of Boardroom B&B, during the inaugural conference.
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2011
NY OPEN Center, New York, NY.
"Phone Booth" as hospitality amenity available to clients of Boardroom B&B, during the inaugural conference. Pre-recorded voice-message installation.
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2011
NY OPEN Center, New York, NY.
Conference participant speaking during the "Bar Camp" segment, during the inaugural conference..
• Size: n/a • Medium: Conference Documentation • Year: 2011
NY OPEN Center, New York, NY.
"The General's Farewell Speech" segment during "Exposing The Farewell".
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2008
2007 Civic Honda Hybrid, brick and mortar of "Car Service."
"The Museum of Car Service" is the third instance of the recurring performance.
Initial instance, in 2009, "Free Car Service," was a performance at Buswick Open Studios, Brooklyn NY.
This was followed, in 2010, with "Pay As You Wish," in transit.
• Size: 2 x 2" • Medium: 35mm Fujichrome Velvia100 Slide • Year: 2011
The Museum of Car Service, New York, NY.
The Museum of Car Service is the third instance of the recurring performance, "Car Service."
In this series, car passengers were requested to present any object of any value in exchange for transportation. The item could be loaned or donated to the Museum, per the instructions of the passenger. The accession of items into the permanent collection required cataloging and conservation. Every passenger received appropriate paperwork in receipt, along with transportation.
• Size: 2 x 2" • Medium: 35mm Fujichrome Velvia100 Slide • Year: 2011
The Museum of Car Service, New York, NY.
Cataloging the "Museum of Car Service" permanent collection, object 16.
• Size: 8.5 x 11" • Medium: Cardstock Certificate • Year: 2010
Certificate issued during performance, "Car Service v2.0 (Pay As You Wish)," which includes images from the prior performance, "Car Service v1.0 (Free Car Service)."
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2010
"Getting To Know You"
Private Residence, Brooklyn, NY.
Anna's bed, where I slept during a seven day performance, while assuming the playwright's identity in her absence.
Although a stranger whose acquaintance I still have not met, Anna granted me permission to adopt her lifestyle, job duties, diet and exercise habits when she left the country on vacation.
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2010
"Getting To Know You"
Private Residence, Brooklyn, NY.
Anna's instructions to me, per her reading habits and door opening procedures.
Although a stranger whose acquaintance I still have not met, Anna granted me permission to adopt her lifestyle, job duties, diet and exercise habits when she left the country on vacation.
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2010
"Getting To Know You"
Private Residence, Brooklyn, NY.
Anna's libary, including cookbooks, where I would find recipes in order to cook myself meals in her name.
Although a stranger whose acquaintance I still have not met, Anna granted me permission to adopt her lifestyle, job duties, diet and exercise habits when she left the country on vacation.
• Size: n/a • Medium: Graphic Score • Year: 2010
This graphic score is used to convey my performance composition to other artists as a set of directions if they wish to realize the work themselves in subsequent performance.
Inner Terp is a performance for an entire ensemble comprised of vocalists and instrumentalists, and it requires projection of live video. The narrator and his/her selected ringleader determine an inner ensemble who huddle and block the narrator from the remaining outer ensemble. The narrator interprets (ASL) any story to the inner ensemble by gesture, while a camera focuses entirely on facial expressions. The inner ensemble vocalizes the story, per the direction of the ringleader; the live video feed (transmitting only the face of the narrator with as little gesticulation as possible) is projected onto the scrim, and the outer ensemble musically scores the narration as they deem fit.
This work deals with communication and misinterpretation, while also noting the vivid expressions that grace the face of sign language interpreters and equally contribute to the communication of any story.
• Size: 0:31 • Medium: Sound File • Year: 2012
German voice actor recites outgoing voicemail greeting for TJ Hospodar during his participation in Month of Performance Art Berlin.
• Size: 780px x 342px • Medium: JPG • Year: 2011
Digital Instructions, as part of Timed Capsule, ongoing series of textual work that investigates time, surprise, identity and memory.
• Size: 7 x 3" • Medium: Moleskin Journal • Year: 2009
• Size: 30 x 40" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2009
Having become enamored with the "Free Store", as installed by other artists in lower Manhattan in 2009, I wrote a book about gift economies in a journal that I procured from the store.
After completing the novel, I donated the book into the inventory of the store thereby putting it into circulation.
• Size: 8 x 8" • Medium: Palladium Print • Year: 2010
Digital Capture -> Internegative -> Palladium Print -> Scan + Text
• Size: n/a • Medium: 9-Frame GIF animation • Year: 2013
During normal review of a digital photograph, viz. an image file in image processing software, it is never visually apparent that the file itself had firstly been constructed to be understood by the machine. This assembly language code is the concealed, cryptic structure that holds the image together. By hacking into the file, beyond "the picture" that the image software presents to us, we can illuminate the essence of the image as the machine knows it.
This particular work is derived from an image file (JPG) and is technically a deconstructed photograph. By loading the image file into a text editor, I found myself inspired by my manual scrolling of the "text file" and the way that the data was "dancing" across my monitor. I recreated this manual animation of dragging the scroll-bar by reconstructing the file into a series of photographs of each "page" and executed as a GIF animation. Still, the viewer is looking at a "photograph" as the computer knows it.
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• Size: n/a
• Medium: Flyer (& Performance)
• Year: 2012
Dixon Place, New York, NY.
A performance exploring transparency within anonymous conventions, via open house, and allowing the public to pay witness to storytelling, reconciliation and members' support during their trials and tribulations that naturally result from Being Scorpio.
• Size: 12 x 12" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2011
This work reconsiders Ad Reinhardt's Black Paintings in light of the process undertaken by Vik Muniz in his making of "Ad Reinhardt" (2000). I first created an object comprising particulate matter that I sourced from the library at Brooklyn College where Reinhardt was professor. Using the classification of the Library of Congress to influence my sourcing, I assembled a collection of detritus that allowed for distinct shades of black per knowledge category. The dust is sandwiched in acetate as a sculpture and then photocopied, thereby creating a representation of a representation.
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2008
Part of Headlights Series, Las Cruces, NM.
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2008
Part of Property Lines Series, Little Rock, AR.
• Size: 16 x 20" • Medium: C-Print • Year: 2007
Part of Masks Series, Belmont, MA.
• Size: N/A • Medium: Performance Documentation Year: 2004+
Greater New York Area
"Dinner Theatre," a collaboration with artist 0H10M1KE, is an ongoing body of work that contemplates the integration of theatricality and meal-sharing. Episodes have explored the presentation of work in a variety of settings such as private residences, automobiles, boardrooms, galleries and public space.
• Size: N/A • Medium: Performance Documentation Year: 2009
BROOKLYN, NY
• Size: N/A • Medium: Performance Documentation Year: 2012
MITTE, BERLIN
• Size: N/A • Medium: Performance Documentation Year: 2010
NEW YORK, NY
• Size: N/A • Medium: Performance Documentation Year: 2009
NEW YORK, NY
