Mixed Blessings

A public-art installation that activates the “fourth wall” - the plane between the stage and the audience. Video imagery is constructed to fit the windows facing the diners at the Channel Café.

2007, 28 min

Feeding the Fire

A multi-projection installation with sound. A low-income family in India tends a fire from before dawn through the preparation of their main meal - which is accidentally spilled into the fire.

2005, 173 min

Shift

A videosonic projection of first two bodies and then one asleep under sheets. The movement of the forms speak to the complexity of companionship, intimacy and loss.

2005, 4 min

Counter Crisis

Counter Crisis captures the human tendency to shirk responsibility and avoid the root-causes of problems until disaster requires heroic responses.

2004, 5:30 min

Forsaken Prayers

Using footage and sound elements captured from throughout Africa and South Asia, this piece creates a visceral experience of the repetitive actions that fill the lives of most of the world's people.

2001, 5:30 min

Certain Uncertainty

A sound composition created from recordings of an ensemble asked to sigh uncertainly and to slap their hands with certainty.

2005, 4:50 min

xcape

xcape is a quadraphonic experience of the space between the known and the unknowable where we experience the worst and fail to act heroically.

2004, 5:30 min

Distant Views
Culture Catchers

An installation of exposed electronics which creates an interactive multi-channel sound experience broadcasting short-wave radio signals from around the world.

2005/2006

Reunion

In Reunion I perform an act of destabilization with an 8' tall stack of large wood blocks. The performance is directed by a sound composition inspired by my experiences of instability in families, institutions and societies.

2003, 18 min