Klub Rupturre!!
installation, video, performance
video TRT 45 min 19 sec
Black & White Projects gallery
2019
Taking the form of a 1989 regional TV Dance Party, Klub Rupturre!! was a multimedia installation that incorporates painting, performance, video, installation, with an a late 80s palette and soundtrack. In the video, a creepy hostess introduces each song as dancers work their way through a top ten countdown leading up to the moment of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The installation was the set for the video as well as the venue for public events, including a live dance party.
2 minute edit of the 45 minute video here.
This project took place during the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that profoundly reshaped much of the culture of the Bay Area, in a year of great significance globally.
Klub Rupturre!! was funded by an SFAC Individual Artist Commission Grant.
Installation and events
Kala Art Institute Gallery
2017
Installation as glowing stage for various actions designed to improve people’s “mettle” and feelings of safety, post-election and post-Ghost Ship fire. This project encouraged participants to shed fear and feel more in control of their lives and emotions in multiple forms.
Actions in the space included a youth journalism podcast event about the fire, an internet privacy/safety for activists workshop, a self-defense video shoot, and numerous “safety selfies” on yellow paper. The space was bookended by 2 large illustrated prints of Kala’s 2 closest fire stations; 2 strong boxes in dreamy, inviting environments to convey calm, courage, protection and hope.
Print Public Fellowship Exhibition, Mayumi Hamanaka, curator
wall painting
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
San Francisco
2011
Hand-painted recreation of Sister Corita Kent’s* Some Rules for Students and Teachers.
Commissioned for the E is for Everyone: Celebrating Sister Corita exhibition at MOCFA.
(*often misattributed to John Cage, who contributed Rule 10.)
Action for Women’s Marches
Oakland and San Francisco
2017, 2018, 2019
Large dance brigade with protest signs employing pop and hiphop song lyrics. In partnership with 100 Days Action; documentation also included in ‘Sonic Futures‘, curated by Patricia Cariño, at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
2016
video, installation, performance
‘After Pop Life’ exhibition
Purified with holy water from Lake Minnetonka, the Minnesota Street Project Media Gallery was temporarily rechristened as a place of worship for the music of Prince Rogers Nelson.
The Chapel hosted daily Hours of Contemplation, featuring a selection of Wofford’s karaoke videos. Special Services were also held certain afternoons and evenings, when the Karaoke Hymnal was opened to the faithful to choose and perform their songs of devotion.
The Chapel was part of the After Pop Life exhibition curated by Glen Helfand.
