A few recent photo publications include the cover of Passengers Journal, The Write Launch, Third Street Review, and Artwife. Rich, saturated color seems to be a current theme…
Dwelling in the Dissolve Published in Found Footage Magazine
My essay describing experiments with the destruction of sections of the 1987 action film Street Justice was published in the October 2023 issue of Found Footage Magazine in a beautiful layout. Here’s a couple of lines from the essay: In beginning this hands-on work, I was reminded of Adrian Miles’ concept of critical intimacy discussed in an essay about interactive documentary; he uses the term to counter the notion of critical distance, noting that “intimacy obliges us to negotiate, consider, address, deal with, and wonder about the relational, active, agential, and relational complexity of real things in actual contexts.” Situating his term within the context of new materialism and its attention to the world around us, along with an acute awareness of the world’s sensory detail, Miles offers a lovely framing for new kinds of critical practice….
Word of Mouth: When Our Lips Speak Together
I’m delighted to be working on a sequence of short videos for a workshop at this year’s ISEA, titled Word of Mouth: When Our Lips Speak Together and offered in collaboration with an amazing group of artists from the Media Arts + Practice PhD program at USC. I’ve been piercing, piecing, stitching, seaming, and otherwise “reading” texts by Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and thinking about what it means to “speak together.”
New Work-in-Progress
I’m currently gathering footage of water between Santa Monica and Catalina for a new video project considering the relationship between the human and non-human world through the senses. How can the rich, sensual immediacy of the cinematic affect how we think about the world we so violently inhabit?
Under Water Screenings
Under Water is a poetic visual essay about the Anthropocene as experienced through small shifts in the underwater ecologies of a small island off the coast of Maine. The video is part of a larger project dedicated to chronicling environmental collapse through the felt experience of everyday life.
Books Onscreen Conference
I’m getting materials ready for a presentation titled “Figure and Frame, Letter and Line” on films, like those of William Kentridge, that turn the pages of a book into frames of a film. The conference is hosted by the University of Leeds and Anglia Ruskin University. This image comes from Kentridge’s visualization of three sonnets.
Nonfiction Now Conference
The topic of this project is creative critical writing and other media forms, with six panelists altogether. I’m looking at all the work around Barbara Loden’s film Wanda, with a video essay…