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untitled (object of ideology)
HD video, silent
installation view
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untitled (living in a motel room
in Stevenson Ranch)
binaural recordings, sound montage
This is an aural non-narrative, based on diaristic recordings made around the motel I used to live in, by the Interstate 5 Freeway in Stevenson Ranch.
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untitled (truncate)
digital zoom, binaural recording
This piece was installed in a room in the basement at the California Institute of the Arts, in a loop. The installation used spacial elements, rear projection, darkness and an immersive sound system to create intensity and a sense of duration. It is part of the free way series.
It’s made up of three parts, which correspond to three shots. As shots, they follow a logic of suspense, as parts they follow a logic of suspicion. We move towards identifying the object of our experience, only to find it lacks specificity and bears a message.
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The mobility of the symmetric pieces allowed for people to selectively remove them, at once dismembering any kind of reification the image might have had, while allowing new, specific interpretations to occur according to localization on campus and the corresponding signs, removed and remaining: sleeve, hand, Starbucks coffee cup, head.
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untitled (fridge)
theatrical version
contact microphones, refrigerator
In a lit kitchen is a refrigerator.
This piece was developed along three parts: firstly, as a sound piece at AT-1 Projects for the group show Volume (AtWater Village, Los Angeles), where it was installed in a former industrial kitchen. The viewer’s body was equated with the original object through the performative experience of duration and the architectural resonant phenomena, the presence of an actual deactivated industrial refrigerator in the space underlining the gap between the two; secondly, as a visual installation at the California Institute of the Arts sub-level, during art walk, with rear projection screen, room and hallway as architectural conditions for an extended audio sculpture and indeterminate duration experiences; lastly, as a single channel piece, it was reworked to be a few minutes long and shown in the REDCAT theater with surround sound, and at the Kristi Engle gallery with headphones on a hanging flat screen. This last iteration aimed at still including the ideas of materiality and performance, while allowing the inherently narrative elements associated with single channel screenings to emerge.
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morning exercise
two video loops, one sound loop, information
cops practice shooting on targets, commanded by their instructor — the Los Angeles Police Academy is located in between the Los Angeles River and Dowtown Los Angeles; students ride their bikes and skateboards and walk around the USC campus — USC is a privately funded teaching institution located along Figeroa, North of Exposition Park. A homeless man walks around his belongings on the concrete floor of the Eastern bank of the LA River — he exercises in the morning, oblivious of the cars, freight trains and running waters which surround him.
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untitled (on top of a hill and driving a car)
motion mapping algorythm, omnidireccional audio recording
loop
