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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
2024, 10:18 minutes, colour
tapecode 2168.00
I’ve spent my whole life listening to and often recording interviews with different members of my family and extended community. One of the phrases I hear most often is “on and on and on” as a way to conclude a point; or to extend it. Anishinaabe often talk in circles, or maybe to be colonized is to see how… ⊕
An homage to Chicago artist and toolmaker Dan Sandin’s 1973 video, Five-minute Romp through the IP, in which Sandin demos the Image Processor (IP), a modular analog video synthesizer he built the same year, and encouraged artists to "copy it right." In this video (created while at an artist’s residency in… ⊕
Footage was shot on June 28, 2021, and records the various actions that build to a single performance. The work dialogues with the performance for camera tradition, but it is clearly edited and narratively stylized. There is no direct audience. The main recorded action is me sitting on bags of ice for several hours while they… ⊕
2026, 07:51 minutes, colour
tapecode 127.43
Form's Dilemma is an eight minute video consisting of downloaded MP4 clips in relation to selected images and their words, which are sequenced alphabetically. There is no J word or image and the same applies to the letter U.The title Form's Dilemma refers to Hollis Frampton's film Zorn's Lemma, which utilizes a parallel… ⊕
Heaven is a two-layered work consisting of downloaded mp4 clips. The first layer is all perfect circles found up in the skies. The second layer hosts images and bodies very much of the earth. So is there a heaven?
