2004
installation, video, performance, drawing

An installation centered on three lonely, miserable cockroach hotel guests, isolated in their rooms. The Motel presented alienation and transformation through the eyes of nature’s most reviled and most indomitable creature, raising questions about cultural difference and emotional alienation via absurdist tragicomedy.

Visitors entered the motel-room-like-installation which doubled as the set for a video piece involving all 3 cockroaches. The video played on the TV within the room, creating an endless cycle of despair. Outside the room were a row of hand-made doorknob hangers with plaintive, existential lamentations in lieu of typical housekeeping phrases.

A series of late-night winter salons, Les Nuits des Cafards, were hosted by one of the three Motel cockroaches. Every guest at Les Nuits was granted a membership to the elite, shadowy La Société Des Cafards organization.