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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
How do I reconcile being on stolen land with my mother’s experience? And my children’s experience of being of mixed ancestry? The chai is being poured out of the copper vessel into the bone china tea cup. The tea cup is inherited from my husband’s grandfather. The audio is the sound of a buffalo stampede that… ⊕
Echo Chambers presents three chapters of video collage constructed entirely from Instagram's algorithmically-suggested content. The work functions as a digital self-portrait, documenting the recursive feedback loop between personal influence and algorithmic manipulation where the act of collecting material fundamentally alters… ⊕
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… ⊕
Endearing Insanity explores the longing for connection and visibility in a displaced environment. Set within a confined apartment, the protagonist, trapped in various enclosed spaces such as a cabinet, microwave, and sink, performs a monologue while waiting for someone to visit. The text, drawn from online message boards,… ⊕
2022, 12:36 minutes, colour
tapecode 163.134
A commissioned work and it is a spontaneous relation/reaction with the super 8mm footage from the archives of Josefina Mesa. It is part of EXODUS VII: JMA MATRIARCHIVE In Resistance. This exhibition is the premiere worldwide activation of the Mexican-Lebanese pioneer ecofeminist architect Josefina Mena’s archive… ⊕
