Video, Installations, Visual Art
Soft Display
Video project with Sueyeun Juliette Lee, 2022
Soft Display is a film about communication, technology, vulnerability, and joy. Participants were asked to share the last ten text messages sent or received on their phones. No context. In order. No editing (unless they wanted to!) Thank you to Chaz, Sakiynah, Brice, Stacey, Kevin, Kealey, Eric, Laia, Noah, James, Darla, Paloma, Lonnie, Elle-Han, Gion, Becky, Michael, John, Franny, Joshua, Katie, Kiera, Rachel, Max, Karsyn, Page, Viniyanka, Kachine, Jeff, Lilian, Nick, and Nicole. This video was shot at the Denver Small Press Fest on March 12, 2022 at the Center for Visual Arts in Denver, Colorado. Filmed and edited by Sueyeun Juliette Lee and Sommer Browning.
mom combat home
Video project, 2022
In 2020, my daughter and I read aloud every billboard as we drove across Kansas on I-70. mom combat home is that language--the language of commerce, travel, politics, tourism, priorities, fear, joy, urges, and human need--rearranged, and read aloud by ten native Kansans over footage of three Kansas parks: Chase State Fishing Lake, the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, and Lake Scott State Park. The film is 424 seconds long reflecting the 424 miles of I-70 that crosses Kansas.
Premiered at the 2022 Lost River Film Festival.
Zoom Room / 99 Cents a Minute / Cinéma Vérité
Video project with The Cyborg Jillian Weise, 2021, currently unavailable
Premiered at isFAIR 20202021
everything looks better at night
Video project, 2020
everything looks better at night chronicles the emotions of the first days of the shelter-in-place orders enacted across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of a week, I asked friends to record themselves describing the weather. Between descriptions of the clouds and assessments of the temperature were psychic self-appraisals and tentative affirmations—glimpses of a shared fragility. The dates refuse linearity, some were even reported incorrectly, mirroring the way time felt unreliable in the early weeks of the crisis. I don’t know if this short film tells us that we are all different under the same sky or that we are the weather we describe or some third, fourth, or fifth thing we occasionally almost understand.
This film won a 2020 COVID-19 Artist Relief Video Art Award from Black Cube
SIX PAINTINGS
acrylic paint, 2019
Puddle Drop, group show, curated by Hardly Soft
RedLine Denver
FORTUNE PENCILS
Installation, 2019, The Dairy Block, Denver, CO
I wrote a series of six fortunes that were printed onto pencils and then sold for 25 cents out of a pencil dispenser designed by Paul Andersen in collaboration with MCA Denver.
DIRECTORY
Unrealized Proposal for Black Cube’s MONUMENTAL
Published in MONUMENTAL Zine, 2019
Two sided, solar-powered LED, outdoor lightbox
Two color posters
DIRECTORY is a sculpture that aims to situate Denver’s shifting authority, its notions of civic responsibility, its nostalgia and humanity, and its economic landscape simply, in one place, and with care and humor.
Joke Museum
Installation, 2016, Counterpath, City Park Jazz, Denver, CO
For Joke Museum, I took over Counterpath’s tent at City Park Jazz in Denver and hung about 200 jokes (some classic and some my own) on notecards around the entire tent. There were also three “exhibits” depicting classic joke ephemera on display as if they were in a museum: a chicken, a banana peel, a pair of combat boots. The audience was free to wander around the tent and read the jokes and they could write their own jokes on extra notecards and add them to the installation.
BUMPER STICKERS
2000-present
I am always making bumper stickers. This is a small sample.
Mask Lecture
Lecture and mixed media masks, 2014
Counterpath, Madam Harriet Presents series
I created three must-have masks for the year (Brick Wall, Wig in Front of Face, & an Anti-Mask) and delivered a ten minute lecture on them.
Backup Singers
Video Project, 2014-2020
I put out a call on social media asking for people to record themselves reading a poem from my poetry collection Backup Singers in order to create a crowdsourced version of the book. What resulted is a kind of double-sided diary told by my friends, family, peers, and total strangers. They are my words but read in other people’s bedrooms, on their porches, on their commutes, with their children. Two intimacies are joined and rather than them canceling each other out they are somehow distilled; the video becomes even more private and personal.