2010
Chinet® plates, printed matter, ink, pigment, rocks, wire, paint
Performance on July 10, 2010 at the Black Mountain College Museum Fundraiser
Five Chinet® plates, the action and manipulation of each plate was inspired by five poems by Charles Olson. Chin “et” a piece of the last plate after reciting a line from Olson’s poem ‘In Cold Hell, in Thicket,’ “all things are made bitter, words even are made to taste like paper…”
2008-2010
existing house, stainless steel, steel, wood, plywood, Gatorboard ®, lead-encapsulation paint, automotive body and paint finishes, 12,000 brass thumbtacks, 6,000 unique hand-drawn Fundred Dollar Bills.
Overall size: 18 x 22 x 40 feet, interior walls are 10 1/2 feet in height
Safehouse is a sculptural icon of Operation Paydirt in New Orleans’ flood-wrecked and lead-laden neighborhood of St. Roch. Safehouse is a former residential dwelling, its front façade transformed into an operable 10-foot-in-diameter bank-vault door, complete with a rotary combination lock. Safehouse was a Fundred gathering and drawing space and served as Operation Paydirt Headquarters in New Orleans; thousands of Fundreds, drawn by Louisiana school children, were displayed inside.
2010
proposal
FIAT LUCE, RIFIUTI, MISTERO: Two Propositions for Participation and One Prognostication for Bologna, Italy. Created in response to a competition for Bologna public art.
Preparatory Notes:
Ask the least, so the most can be included.
Conceive parts the performers (the participants) can easily follow yet allow them to understand how they are essential to the whole.
Let there be uncomplicated actions asked of the participants, making interaction accessible and non-intrusive, and then generously return evidence, in great scale, as a reward for public engagement.
Present a spectacle, viewable from space, or a show of sustainable fashion, without cynicism, to further the principles of participation.
Participation should be a catalytic engine for further ideas.
Allow the individual to have a part in creating something unique along with a multitude of others.
2010
woodblock print
12 x 14 1/2 inches
edition of 8
“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”
-Karl Marx
2009
bronze
18 x 18 x 1 1/2 feet
installed at the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
2008
proposal
Consider: instead of a clock, a widget
The project proposes an option to a climate countdown and provides an option for people to engage directly with the climate.
Community: an exponential aggregation of CLI-mate users
Development of an easy interface to link individuals personally with global climate change will be the directive of the CLI-mate freeware widget.
Solution: establish the feedback loops
As the Climate Clock prospectus indicates, a feedback loop is essential. Establishing an opportunity for feedback through personalized interaction provides motivation for behavioral change.
CLI-mate is a means to stimulate critical adjustment in human behavior, ultimately on a global level. If climate change is the most urgent issue of our time, then the development of an interface to encourage, or to be the means by which we make those modifications, is needed now. One of the essential challenges is to facilitate a personal relationship between individuals and global climate change. Global warming trends must be directly connected to the source in order to change behavior.
Concept developed in collaboration with: Joe Dahmen, Travis Franck, Amber Frio-Jimenez, Amul Goswamy