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Multi-media video installation, 2005

“A Room-A Loom” spans the space of the gallery, creating a site-specific loom. People are invited to contribute the material of their choice to the collaborative textile. The project began at Workspace in North East Los Angeles, and was recreated at artist-run spaces all over the country.Materials used include: weeds, old clothing, Halloween costumes, computer … Read more

Backstrap looms are portable looms used in Mexico and Central America. The loom is attached to a stable structure, and the weaver’s body weight is used to create tension in the warp. One can weave virtually anywhere. For this piece, the collaborative woven sculpture is constructed over the course of eight hours of uninterrupted weaving … Read more

“The Audience Reacts”” features a group of extras. Plucked from the sets of television shows, these actors play a fictional audience for a performance that doesn’t exist.

This shoes is the result of a two-month long apprenticeship with a shoemaker named Vahan at his store in Burbank, “George’s Dance Shoes.” I worked to create a single shoe, custom made to my foot. The shoe sits on the floor of the gallery, somewhere between a discarded personal item and a sculpture.

In this piece, a young opera singer sings the melody of one of the most recognized arias from the opera Don Giovanni, playing both male and female parts of the duet on adjacent flatscreen monitors.

A Collaboration with Zosha DiCastri Three opera singers perform an original score by Zosha Dicastri. The music was composed from an improvisation session in the studio, from which we created a library of vocal sounds for each character. The singers were each given an iconic operatic persona to play: the patriarch, the castrato and the … Read more