Video collaboration "My My Gray Sky" with choreographer Rachel Bunting and “The Humans.” The project debuted at the Columbia College Dance center in 2014.

“Metal Skeletons and Lost Lands” is an interactive immersive installation involving live dance, song and projected time-lapse films.

The work explored an emotive psychological response to growing up in a polluted environment and questioning the contradiction of home being both a place of comfort and riddled with potential public health concerns. In the very simplistic sense, the work is a coming of age story, where the viewers are positioned as the protagonist and the performers function as the protagonist’s internal dialogue. The work pulls on nostalgic themes of American folkloric storytelling and horror-film inspired Victorian set and costume design. The scene is cinematic, yet the installation theatrics are non-linear and provided as a choose-your-own-adventure movement play.

Credits:

photography by: Chelsea Shilling

Technical Director: Justin Botz

Music: Darkest Wonder

Performance guide: Kellen Walker

Dancers: Tee Mayo, Rachel Nadler, Danielle Gilmore, Melissa Pillarella

Singers: Sid Branca, Lucia Mier-y-Teran Romero*

Storytellers: Sid Branca, Daniel Scott Parker, Lucia Mier-y-Teran Romero, Julynn Wilderson. 

Letterpress Printing: Jillian Bruschera

Carpentry: Peter Reese

Prop Assistance: Brent Koehn

“For Science” is a performance installation that comments on the misuse of ionized radiation in the 1930’s-60’s. The piece exhibits projected found footage of 1940’s nuclear testing clouds juxtaposed with 1950’s television commercials; to draw upon emotive themes of America in the dawn of the nuclear age.

The work was created after the death of the artist’s grandmother who suffered from a lifetime of physical ailments due to over exposure to radiation cancer treatment in the 1960’s. The work focuses mainly on 1940’s post-war idealism in conjunction with medicine, military and consumption.

The work involves experimental image processing techniques displayed and choreographed with live dance.

“You Forget to Ask These Things” is a video installation exploring the topic of memorial loss. The installation space is made of blocky monstrous papier-mache furniture resembling a life-sized homemade dollhouse. The installation performance is time-based and involves projecting video of distorted suburban homes across the paper room. The work explores a conversation between the fragility of lost stories and lost spaces, where the obligatory piecing together of family, domesticity and past events provides a contradicting sense of belonging and detachment.