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My current body of work focuses on collaboration, cross-disciplinary thinking, and institutional critique in the form of monkeying around with hierarchies and art historical sacred cows.

In my last two projects—Ian and Jan: The Washington Body School with Meg Mitchell at DCAC in 2007, and ASSIMILATION/DISSOLUTION with Jefferson Pinder and Christopher Hoeting at Flashpoint in 2006—I used performance, video, photography and drawing as interchangeable tools in the service of philosophical inquiry or elaborate parody.

All good art is about compromise, impossibility, and failure. To know this and to continue to make art anyway—believing in its power as an agent for real transformation despite all evidence to the contrary—is the continuing challenge.