PORTFOLIO (3)
BIO
I am interested in the power of unsanctioned, collective, and science based art as a means to re-evaluate the authority of the artistic. I have installed site- specific street art in cities such as Oaxaca, New Orleans, Washington D.C. and Oakland; and am a founding organizer of numerous artist collectives including Locurativo, for which I collaborated on community projects in El Salvador, Argentina, and Belize. In recent years I have taken up a study of fundamental genetics and neuroscience; in order to reclaim for the arts, a scientific authority that is often in the hands a tech industry agenda.
My current body of work takes the form of experimental lecture performances and audio sculptures that appropriate learned, albeit modified, ideas from my study of science and art. I take on the assumed authority of the scientific and allude to a historical cache of art, yet exclude a fixed art object. This manifestation of my practice enables me to: illuminate boundaries of requisite accountability between art and science, engage with temporal Cartesian questions, reconfigure the power of engagement between artistic voice and technological ascendancy, and propose potential future crises for the artist-as- image-maker.
My current body of work takes the form of experimental lecture performances and audio sculptures that appropriate learned, albeit modified, ideas from my study of science and art. I take on the assumed authority of the scientific and allude to a historical cache of art, yet exclude a fixed art object. This manifestation of my practice enables me to: illuminate boundaries of requisite accountability between art and science, engage with temporal Cartesian questions, reconfigure the power of engagement between artistic voice and technological ascendancy, and propose potential future crises for the artist-as- image-maker.