installations
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Spectator Sport
Multichannel video and sculptural installation for SPARKcon 2010. Interrogates the relationship between the television and its audience, as structured by broadcast sporting events like NASCAR. With its roots in rebellion, NASCAR paradoxically rejects and advertises American power structures like the military-industrial complex. Does the exhilarating lure of speed conjure freedom or serve as a smokescreen for interests at odds with the American notion of the good life? -
Radios Appear
Scenes from street-level video installation in the Block2 display space on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh. A collaboration with Miles Holst, "Radios Appear" employs music, archival and documentary video to take a swipe at some of the more inane rhetoric in recent local debates about integration in our public schools. Aug. and Sept., 2010. (View the video here.) -
HIGHLIFE
A collaboration with Neill Prewitt and Ellie Blake of Yuxtapongo, in celebration of the music of Ghanaian highlife singer Ata Kak. We painted the walls of a room in the Artspace building downtown with projections of dancers in a simulated dance line experience. One night only, June 4, 2010.
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YUXTAPONGO MEGAJUXX MEGAMIXX
A thirty-minute dual-screen remix loop of sound and video sourced from the cable-access TV program YUXTAPONGO. Video by: A/V Geeks, Chad Byrne, Lincoln Hancock, Miles Holst, Neill Prewitt, Michael Shick, Abel Sánchez, Iván Villanueva Solana and Nick Speaks. Sounds by: Barbarian Homos Music Service Ltd., Cold Sides, Dan McCafferty, DataHata, Double Negative, kinoeye, La Voron and Neill Prewitt. Part of SPARKcon Experimental Video Lounge. September 17 – 20, 2009. -
TRANSLUCENCE
Video and sculptural installation for the opening of "Translucence," a show of photographs by Ron Ward and paintings by Melissa Katherine. Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC, August 6 – September 21, 2009.