Folk magic as performance, based on remedies of the Pennsylvania Dutch as collected in 1820 by John Hoffman in the book Pow Wows or, Long Lost Friend.
Excerpted from The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel, 27:00, 2010.
Folk magic as performance, based on remedies of the Pennsylvania Dutch as collected in 1820 by John Hoffman in the book Pow Wows or, Long Lost Friend.
Excerpted from The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel, 27:00, 2010.
00:26:00; 2011.
In Sangre de Cristo, the mountains of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico are examined as a site where embedded layers of oppositional history converge and are revealed through traces of the past in the present landscape. These include the 18th century conflict between the Comanche chief Cuerno Verde and Spanish colonialists, seen through interpretive markers and place names as well as a play on horseback; the Espinosa brothers, who claimed that the Virgin Mary inspired them to murder Anglo settlers in the wake of the Mexican-American war; an interview with an anarchist activist who moved with his wife to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to live a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle on horseback in the 1970s; and documentation of counterculture architecture in the contemporary landscape that serves as material evidence of the new ways of life envisioned by people drawn to the region. Throughout, words drawn from Rudolph Wurlitzer’s novel, The Drop Edge of Yonder, form…
HD video, silent, 2010. Part 4 of 5. The text of each section consists of metaphors and similes extracted, in order, from one year's worth of writing quoted in the New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books" of the year.
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I participated in designing and building Chicken Shack Village, a project of the Baseline Group (an interdisciplinary collective of student artists and faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder). The installation project was exhibited at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art September 2009- January 2010. This video documents the summer 2009 build of Chicken Shack Village and was installed as a loop in the exhibition.
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