Biography
My work investigates the psychological and cultural space that technology, religion, politics, and science fiction all occupy. Each technological advance comes with a hope for utopia and promise of apocalypse and as consumers of technology we devour both with incredible appetites. As an artist I try to find and reconstruct moments when these structures meet, where you can find politics in invention and god in technology. I use my work as an intersection for the anxieties that drive these social forces. I’m motivated by anxieties and frustrations surrounding concepts of identity, justice, perfection, futility, and eternity.
The pursuit of these themes has brought me to create performances, videos, and sculptures in which I use my body as an interface for not only the technologies incorporated into each piece but for the calamities that these inventions impose. I put myself in the way of these machines in order to recontextualize them in a narrative, or rewrite of sc
By appropriating meaning we enrich our subjects. By complicating technology, faith, and politics I hope to add to their depth and entangle their motives.
