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Stairwell, 2006 (excerpt)
Stairwell deals my ongoing interest in athleticism and spectacle. The video was shot during the 2006 Empire State Building Run-up, an organized race that occurs annually in the tallest building in New York. In past years this event took place in The World Trade Center. The low-resolution surveillance quality of the video offers very little visual information about the stairwell, shifting the medium from one of description to an experience of claustrophobia, panic, and physical extremes.
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The Big Three (Blinks), 2003/2006 (excerpt)
This is a sort of elegy to the former big three (NBC, ABC, CBS) evening network news
broadcasters: Tom Brokaw (retired), Peter Jennings (deceased), and Dan Rather (demoted).
It unravels the ”unblinking” coverage these men provided for two
decades. The footage is taken from evening broadcasts in June 2003, the last year the
three broadcasters appeared simultaneously on the air. The current expansion of news media outlets has severely reduced the influence of the evening news patriarch. This video isolates the blinks that periodically break the visual connection with television audiences. |
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The Match, 2000
This is my contribution to the genre of infantile macot head performance. The Mickey Mouse sparring is machine-like, but the exchanges do not repeat as loops. A perfect looping structure is only possible through a mechanical sampling process. The punching is varied. The video highlights the fragility and awkwardness of hand combat when subjected to the rules of simple machines: A single pivot step, straight jab, and a block. |
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Crossing The Serra, 2000
The protagonist in this video deals with the obstruction of a Richard Serra sculpture by means of teleportation. The sculpture is located on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum. I would have executed this piece on the site of Tilted Arc, 1981, in Lower Manhattan if I was capable of time-travel in addition to teleportation. |