To present the fishing project to art audiences I prepared a performance in the spring. It incorporated video, performance, and found objects - all of which derived from my experience of carrying a fishing rod.

video / 3d animation
4 min

Inspired by reading Georgio Agambenâ??s article, What is the Contemporary, I composed a script by appropriating text from Hemmingwayâ??s The Sun Also Rises and Kerouacâ??s On the Road. By replacing the concept of the road with the ocean, I speak to the global mobility of today's society.

3d animation

2.46minutes

This project was born out of trying to find a convergent point between my drawing, video and performance art.

It was created site specifically for the room depicted in the documentation of the installation. In creating this piece, I was thinking about trap doors and what they symbolize. As the trap door emerges, one's perception of the room is altered, the walls appear to shift and grow in scale before transporting the viewer into an entirely new environment - the ANDscape.

What interests me in this notion of an ANDscape is that it represents the unlimited places our mind can travel to.

The subject matter of my work is most distilled in the drawings I create. My drawings involve writing the word ?AND? repeatedly in various layers and processes. I use the word AND as a mode of expression as well as a structural tool. These drawings are at once reductive, formal and conceptual. For me, this syllable, this word, represents connectedness and by drawing it through processes of repetition, overlap, magnification and distortion I investigate the nature of form and language as constructions.

On March 20, 2010 I went fishing at PS1 Contemporary, NY

I interacted with Leonardo Erlich's, Swimming Pool, a film by Walter De Maria, which was included in the exhibition '69, and Felix Gonzalez Torres' installation, which one encountered upon exiting the exhibition '100 Years (of performance art)'.

I was delighted by my luck! My work is greatly informed by the generation of artists represented in the '69 exhibition. As well, being an emerging performance artist, I saw this as an opportunity to situate myself in the exhibition '100 Years (of performance art)', and appropriately, as the most recent performance event....


Photographed by Peter O'Neill

On January 18th, 2010 I started carrying a fishing rod with me everywhere, everyday.

I perceived this project as an ongoing interaction that embraced the absurd to engage the everyday.

It involved interacting with people who engaged with me, documenting these interactions (by writing from memory) and collecting intriguing objects.

Carrying this fishing rod through Baltimore has, in many ways, helped to acquaint me with the city and get to know some of the people living here. It started out with random strangers asking me where I was fishing, what I was fishing for, if there are still any fish left in harbor and wishing me good luck, to people approaching me and saying things like, "I'm sure I've seen you carrying that fishing rod four of five times now..." and I would end up chatting with someone for up to half hour.




photographed by Peter O'Neill

drawing repetitions of 'AND' with joint compound on various surfaces