PROJECTS
[2025] CITY HALL | SOLIDARITY DOGS | 349 THINGS [2024] AN EXERCISE IN EXERCISE | NOT HERE YET | THE EXTRA DAY | CAKESCAPE #13 | POST-POST-POST HUMAN RESOURCES [2023] MOWING THE GRASS | TURF/TERF | GUTS4GUTS [2022] SPAGHETTI DAY | WORLD AS I WISH IT WAS [2021] THE MOTHERS | AREA C [2020] ON THE CLOCK [2019] REFUGE/REFUGEE | POP-UP COPY SHOP [2018] HOT DOGS 24/7 (grad school) [2017] LIBRE/LIBRE (grad school) [2016] ISO SERIES (grad school)
The Mothers
2021 / 2022 [pinned]
The Mothers is a speculative video installation activating SCOBYs as material and metaphor. The work examines the ongoing production and reproduction of the related white supremacist fictions of settler colonialism and the gender binary, imagining a post-capitalist world based on an ethics of care and interdependence. It explores the abject, queer futurity and the symbiotic overlap of the microbes and humans.
solidarity dogs
2025
Solidarity Dogs is a 60 minute hot dog dinner party processional. Taking place 12 days after the presidential inauguration, this is a migratory feast, in spite of and to spite, the incoming 2.0 fascist administration. Summoning joy as resistance, this will be the feed we need, as we join in the deep care and solidarity needed to sustain us all.
349 THINGS
2025
349 Things I Don't Need to Worry About Right Now is a collaboration between artist Marcel Marcel and poet Elizabeth Marie Young. It takes text from one of Young’s poems as the starting point for a video consisting of screen recordings of online surveillance live cams with an attending soundscape. The collaboration reflects on the information overload that results from our contemporary digital and media landscapes.
an exercise in
exercise
2024
An Exercise in Exercise celebrates queer elder joy by doing away with boring chair aerobics and instead offering highly impractical, glam shimmering pods to ensconce in: beanbag aerobics. In this temporal finale at the Golden Colonel, the very radical act of reclining in the beanbag is exercise–-exercising your right to exist.
Governor’s Island / Flux Factory
the extra
day
2024
The Extra Day is an 8hr ritual-happening that occurs on the leap year day, Feb 29. Participants are invited to enter a queer architecture of time that collectively gestates rest and joy amidst grief and sorrow: genocide in Gaza, the exhaustion of capitalism and linear time.
Not yet
here
2024
“Not Yet Here” represents an architecture for a world to come and mycelial cakescape for unworlding present structures. In an act of joy as resistance, participants complete the vision by gathering around the sculpture, and pausing and eating.
Cakescape #13
2024
Photo of Cakescape 13 enlarged to the size of a tablecloth, displayed as a tapestry in gallery.
guts4guts
2023
Guts4Guts is a collaboration with veronique d’entremont’s and their installation series “The Table is an Altar”, marking the third course in their conceptual feast. The installation highlights kombucha SCOBYs growing in family dinnerware nested in tablescape of live microgreens. As a speculative model for coexistence, G4G is a collective ritual that enacts the porousness of the boundaries of the category of human.
MOWING THE lawn
2023
Mowing the Lawn or Mowing the Grass explores how language contributes to dehumanization. Mowing the Grass is an Israeli euphemism/military strategy to describe the periodic massacres of Palestinians.
like a dog
2022 / 2023
As part of the TURF/TERF Post-Human Resources series, this video installation comments on refugee displacement and surveillance as a continued commentary on the fiction of borders and binaries. The installation is complete upon viewer activation—upon the viewer's standing on the astroturf and then crouching slightly to see themselves reflected in the infinity mirror loop and thus both participating, witnessing and disrupting this endless loop of a story.
THE WORLD AS I WISH IT WAS
2022
Boston Convention Center + Boston CyberArts
Glitched video of “On The Clock,” plus footage overlay of Palestinian cutting open a watermelon from the video “Area C.” Collab imagery at base with Maria Servellon. Size: 80 feet digital display
MONDAY IS ALL YOU CAN EAT SPAGHETTI DAY
2022
This is a script experiment performed on Zoom with 3 other artists. I wrote 20 lines/sections and each person picked a section to read at random and we went for 5 rounds.
Area C
2021
Area C explores the fiction of borders and binaries amidst systems of surveillance, colonization and control. The masked shapes are maps from the Oslo accords depicting the alleged division of land in Israel and Palestine as Areas A, B and C. The video remixes Marcel's 2017 footage from Area C with 2020 surveillance footage from public webcams in Silwad, Ramallah and Nablus.
on the clock
2020
Video remix based on a 12 minute guerrilla street performance in front of the Chicago Trump Tower. It was a carnivalesque processional, migratory feast in spite of, and to spite, the previous US Administration, ICE and our general state of emergency. As “emergency couture,” the costumes were composed as a degendered system of parts.
Refuge/
refugee
2019
This video is part of the State of Emergency project, a project that links joy, activism and art. The oversized assembled emergency blanket represents a safe protective material in contrast with the violence upon this home that is earth, that is this nation, that is this city.
pop-up
copy shop
2019
A 24 hour durational performance piece making photocopies of my drawings and internet memes that are later sold for 10 cents. The production resulted in a floor to ceiling collage of drawings and then later green-screened out in video post-production. The project is a reflection on labor, erasure of labor, art production and reproduction, and authenticity.
hot dogs 24/7
2018
Hot Dogs 24/7 is a sci-fi retelling of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave where text, image, and performative bodies merge to counter the seep of ur-fascism. When hot dogs are banned from the UR-Castle Realty workplace, the workers, sick of their surveilled environment, call for a general strike. [MFA thesis]
libre/liber
2017
This is a beginning of a sci fi story about libraries. (Editorial post-script: the opening definition of totalitarianism is by Hannah Arendt.)
[grad school]
ISO A10-A0
2016
My work first semester investigated design as dialogue, via a series of conversations starting internally and spanning outward into both the physical and digital worlds. Formally, the packets were contained within an ISO format, starting at A10 for my first packet and ending at A0. The A0 piece displayed a photo of me holding all the earlier A10-A1 pieces. Performative recursion.
[grad school]