Video & Performance
Offshore, 2024. Video installation.
Offshore is a continuation of my attempts to launder money through art acquisition. In this video, I work with a lawyer to set up an international shell corporation architecture through which I can buy and sell an artwork. Offshore follows my movements as I travel to the Cayman Islands, Switzerland and Hong Kong. It is both an exploration of global finance and a meditation on what it means to be a working artist.
Private Client Services, 2021, single-channel video.
Private Client Services is a performance in which I attempt to launder money through the acquisition of an artwork. The birth of conceptual art in the late 1960s coincides with the end of the gold standard in 1971. Money and art were no longer linked to objects with intrinsic value; they became dematerialized social constructs that exist in perpetual transformation.
1550 Blue Jay Way, 2021. Single-channel video.
In 2018, Jessica Manafort (Paul Manafort’s oldest daughter) released her second feature-length film, a neo noir thriller called Rosy. Around the time that Jessica Manafort was working on Rosy, her husband, Jeffrey Yohai, was involved in a series of real estate scams around Los Angeles, for which he is currently serving time. 1550 Blue Jay Way tells the story of those crimes and their aftermath.
Jessica Manafort, 2020. Single-channel video.
Jessica Manafort is a video about the relationship between Jessica Manafort, a filmmaker, and her father, Paul Manafort, political operative. In 2007, Jessica Manafort wrote and directed her first feature-length film, a teen drama called “Remember the Daze.” Paul Manafort invested millions in its production. Using footage from the original film, “Remember the Daze” is reimagined as a film about money laundering.
X, 2019. Video for a cellphone.
X is a video for a cell phone, made for Morgan Waltz’s project Totes – a gallery in a tote bag.
The Surface of Mars, 2016. Single-channel video.
The Surface of Mars is the third in a series of videos about the actress Jessica Chastain. The project combines footage of Chastain from three films: The Martian, Interstellar and Zero Dark 30. Across these films, Chastain plays a similar type, a high-achieving career woman who pursues a non-romantic male counterpart – Matt Damon, Osama Bin Laden, dad.
A Tribute to Jessica Chastain, 2015. Performance.
A performance lecture in the form of a toast. Despite having it all, Jessica Chastain is depressed. Depression is an atmosphere that permeates everything, connecting bodies in space.
:/nterstellar, 2015. Single-channel video.
:/nterstellar is an essay video that appropriates footage from the 2014 film Interstellar, starring Jessica Chastain. In an early scene, Chastain’s character encounters a drone, defined as “an unmanned object, operated from a remote location.” The logic of drones becomes the logic of girls, in the thrall of their “remote” fathers.
Zero Dark Birthday, 2014.
A video about Jessica Chastain, Osama Bin Laden, stealth helicopters and camouflage. Military tactics are a psychic landscape. The depressed subject disappears into her environment.
Collaborations
JUMPSUIT, The Rational Dress Society, 2014 - 2021. Counter-fashion, design & performance with Abigail Glaum-Lathbury.
Arts Research Collective, 2018, 2020. Experimental art school with Trista Mallory, Aliza Shvarts, Cameron Crawford and Abigail Glaum-Lathbury.
Mutual Criticism, Maura Brewer & Maya Gurantz, the LA Review of Books, 2020. Collaborative writing.
Writing
"Chartjunk," X-Tra Magazine, 2023.
"Rite Aid," Catalog essay, Pau Pescador: they/them they/she she/they, Campbell Hall Gallery, 2023.
"Things That Look Like Other Things," Catalogue essay, Amir Nivkravan: Passing, Nathalie Karg Gallery, 2020.