Projects
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"Welcome to the New York City Waterfront: a peripheral space?"
Part of "Art, Environment, Action!" 2012 Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons The New School for Design Description Welcome to the New York City Waterfront: A peripheral space? was inspired by a water bound field-trip called Waterways/ Commodity-ways that we researched and created as part of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference field-trips in New York in 2012. Our proposal for the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at the New School was in part inspired by the 35 participants who traveled with us along the waters edge back in time to explore the narratives of the city and beyond. The participants were engaged, curious, and inquisitive. They encouraged us to expand our project. This project functioned as a collective pedagogical experience, where shared experiences of the waterfront became shared knowledge’s through visual and written material that were requested from participants. The project challenged the rigidity of the bounded gallery space and created a fluid interchange between the public spaces on the waterfront and the private gallery space. The piece would expand over time and culminated in a presentation where these waterfront experiences and knowledge’s would be shared with an audience and each other. My role: Collaborated with a filmmaker on the projects conceptualization, design, call for participants, and installation |
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"Waterfront and Waterways of NYC: a conversation," 2012
Part of "Art, Environment, Action!" Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design My Role: Gallery Conversation Facilitator Website |
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"Waterways-Commodity Ways," 2012
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY Description Waterways / Commodity - Ways was a field trip designed for the 2012 Association of American Geographers Annual Conference to elucidate connections between the production and trade of commodities such as: coffee, sugar, oil, natural gas and grains with the development and use of New York City’s waterways and waterfront. The production and shipping of these goods illustrate the larger mechanisms and geographies of colonization and imperialism and reveal the importance of waterways to facilitate the transformative patterns that ensue. Traveling by waterboat, we will share a three hour tour detailing the history and use of various NYC waterways and how the waterways, the commodities that were transported connected seemingly distant spaces to form a specific geography of development. Using interviews, images and maps along with anecdotes and personal research, we will discuss the connection these waterways have to the agricultural, mineral and energy products of the North American continent, the Caribbean, and the world. My Role: Field trip Co-Organizer Website |
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Geo Caching Educational Project at Liberty State Park,
for Going Coastal, 2010 My Role: Environmental Writer & Researcher Website |
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"185.33 + 140.12 + 177.07 + 354.20 + 60.00 +10.84+ 65.79 =
$993.35 (not including Labor)", 2009 Capitalism in Crisis, Art and Labor Today LaborFest, Installation at SOMArts Center, San Francisco, CA Description For the 2009 Labor Fest, I proposed a mixed-media sculpture consisting of surveillance monitors embedded at different heights within a stack of found shipping palettes looping three video projects: "34 min. 53 sec. of junk mail", "Land & Sea" and "Periphery". As illustrated in the proposed sketch, the stack of palettes would stand approximately 6'-7' high and would occupy 4' x 4' of floor space essentially becoming the physical and conceptual armature housing references to the dependent interlocking relationships of the globalized economy. This project has grown out of a fascination I have had between objects, space, and time and locating the individual within the system of capital exchange. In the proposed work I explore these relationships at various scales to emphasize the constructed patterns of global capitalism and its relationship to the American consumer and their unconscious impact on domestic and international production. My Role: Visual Artist Website |
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GMO Land Board Game & Participatory Project, 2009
Project on Environmental Ethics and Awareness Location: Barnes and Noble Cafe, Union Square NYC |
