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2024  from rags to riches...
            seconds
            get yourself a lawyer...
            hungry man...
            anthem            
            johanna’s not here
            (thomas series)
            pure evil

2023  meanwhile...
            white light/white heat
            liquid ecstasy...
            for wile e.
            leashed steam...
            family dinner
            love letters
            wild, west
            selections from the...

2022  china, revisited
            steer/madonna
            hail to the king
            tea for masochists

2021   fighting the loneliness
            american pie
            not your country
    
2020  the saint, the villain...
            stolen bike
            low velocity             
            just like a woman

2019   she was trying...
            why don’t you just...
            fat man & little boy
            american reformation
            made in china
            19 transactions
            sign language

American Reformation, 2018 - 2019 RELIC
NOTES & MAPS DOCUMENTING 
DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE U.S.

PERFORMANCE
NOVEMBER 2ND, 2018 - FEBRUARY 14TH, 2019
Planning for the performance started on the 29th of October in 2018. The process involved several one-on-one sessions with selected people from different states with different vocations and different political views. The sessions involved just me and the other person talking for 1 or 2 hours in an isolated space about the pros and cons of every American state and which of them were or weren’t important. Notes were continuously written during dialogue, and once the sessions were over, I immediately marked and edited maps to match the state conclusions we reached in conversation. 

The piece was performed for four months, and yielded over a dozen different versions of a “better” USA.

The doumentation can be presented in a variety of settings.




(Installation on corkboard at Keller Gallery).