Touch Points is a collaboration with Archeologist and Artist Karin Dahl that explores the questions: How do we know a place? What materials define relationship with place? Touch Points follows the pace of relationship, with intentions to foster a longitudinal collaboration that cycles in iteration. The initial Touch Points project was an archeological and somatic dig that occurred while attending the Social Studies residency in Colusa, CA (2019). Areas of inquiry focused on understanding our somatic response to soil, as well as establishing connection with place through a collaborative sensory experience. Touch Points II ORB, involved exploring temporality, burring cylindrical clay orbs that contain messages from past, present, and future realities. Touch Points III: Things are Weirder Than We Think They Are, followed curated readingspaired with material practice and culminated in an elaborate dinner party.
Residue explored relational processes through material transformation and state change using clay, film photography, and sound. This series was created while contemplating human/non-human care, rupture, and partial-recuperation at the Pocoapoco art Residency.
I started by practicing a daily walk to start to form relationship with place and began to notice exterior water nodes/connectors outside of homes. I worked with fragile, bone-dry clay pieces and placed them at these specific touch points during the walk. This practice became a meditation on the materials/resources that intertwine in their ubiquity and ephemerality – water, clay, bodies. What happens when something disappears, and what captures these relationships?
The clay pieces were left next to the water nodes for 2-3 days, during which some remained intact, others crumbled, and some disappeared entirely. The surviving pieces became the basis for cyanotype prints, as a way to ‘fire’ the clay pieces that would eventually dissolve.
The cyanotypes were displayed next to the remaining clay pieces at our final show, along with printed film photos. The work culminated in a performance where I amplified the sound of the clay pieces dissolving and rehydrating and created projections of video from my walk.
What happens when your interviewer is non-verbal, non-human and geological?
Clay Interviews is a project that explores the slow reflections that occur in a clay-human dialogue. Each human interviewee is chosen because of a transitional life moment they are experiencing. They are facilitated to engage in an attentional practice - a reciprocal conversation with clay based on Martin Bobbers concept of ‘i - thou’ relationships.
Documentation shown from interviews with Marie Hoff and Chaitra Bangalore.
Confetti started as an intersectional queer art group to address community care. Confetti engaged in performances, music videos, conversations, pep talks and fundraisers. Confetti’s members were/are fluid. Core members included Jenny Yang, Iso Marcus, Jo Logu, and Jess Anthony. Projects include performance, installation, fundraising for local orgs, and Pep Talk!
