Uneven Earth
Uneven Earth tells the story of Playas, New Mexico, a suburban town built in the 1970’s by Phelps Dodge to service Hidalgo copper smelter. In 1999 Playas was reborn as anti-terror training center. Drawn from research into the militarized American landscape, Uneven Earth, reflects on simulacrum as a means to imagine into different locations, politics, and cultures. Working closely with the Mason family, formerly from Playas, I built a scale model of their street, and imbedded it within a former military site in Norfolk, UK.
Uneven Earth 2.0
Uneven Earth 2.0 is a continuation of Uneven Earth, comprised of three elements; a screenplay, a film, and an installation. The script is a semi-fictionalized narrative imbued with true anecdotes of the Mason family. Anthony Mason works in the Hidalgo Copper smelter and his wife Donna is a nurse at the local clinic. Their lives exist in tandem with their idyllic community, but as the story evolves the environmental and economic effects of copper smelting take their toll. People get sick and job insecurity hovers, culminating in the final mass eviction from their homes. Reappropriating the model of Playas, the installation imagines the site through a fantastical lens - imbedding the houses in copper slag, a nod to the material that so defined the lives of the Mason family.
Speculating Glass
Speculating Glass considers the role glass plays in mediating notions of priviledge, power, and self. Designing props for a series of characters whose identities are affected by the ethics of glass, I created impermanent 'glass' body attachments. The character who wears these pieces is bewitched by the materiality of glass. She transforms into a cyborg, half shatterable and half malleable.
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Performing Power
Performing Power is an investigation to the politics of labour, and the body as site through which these politics are experienced. Comprised of three elements; a movement score written in Rudolph Labans 'Labanotation', a business suit embroidered with Labanotation symbols (serving as a visual key), and a film, Performing Power, seeks to notice how social performance nudges its way into all aspects of daily life, from the uniforms we wear to the way our bodies are held.
Folkestone
Folkestone is named for a plaza style skate park found in Southeast London. Taking influence from Christo and Jeanne-Claude's, Gates, this project maps the transitory nature of the skatepark. Developed in collaboration, Folkestone, is a 3D performative manifestation of critical research which considers how public space is interacted with by the communities living around.
