| The following are selections of site-specific installations, sculptures and performances that fall roughly into three thematic areas (and often overlap with each other). These works integrate various media. | ||
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EMBRACING ANIMAL2004-06 (Site-specific, mixed media installation with glass tubes, video, sound, live laboratory rats in extended rat habitat, computer terminal with website: embracinganimal.com)What is our animal nature? Embracing Animal is a multi-media/ inter-species ersatz scientific installation of exchanges between people and animals. |
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EVERYDAY PROBLEMS OF THE LIVING2000-05 (Video, 26 min., 12 part series and site-specific installation)The video was year-long project about anxieties surrounding living and dying. High, thinking that she might die at 45 in the year 2000, decided to "perform her death," recording tapes around the topic each month. EVERYDAY PROBLEMS OF THE LIVING: DEATH POSES the installation was an exhibition of 3 photographs and one video loop in installation. |
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RATZ2007 (Site-specific installation of various rats, bowl of white chocolate rats and 12 4-6" sculpted clay heads of white rats)Edible white chocolate lab rats and sculpted decapitated rat heads in honor of the rats used in research created for feminist group show. |
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BIG TOOLS SMALL TOOLS2005 (Site-specific installation exhibition in collaboration with Melisssa Dyne. Mixed media.)Commissioned site-specific collaborative installation about time and space that combined video spy cameras, small LCD monitors with a room-size camera obscura projection. The outside gallery window houses multiple small spy cameras pointed at the street. A giant camera lens is also visible from the outside window. Within the gallery there is a constructed, angled wall with the camera obscura image of the street inverted and projected on it 12'x 6'. Five LCD video digital monitors (2"x3") are placed within the wall and within the projected analog images of the street tracing high chroma video color and light versus the lens analog projections. Differences in color, light, time and texture are looked at in slow motion. |
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SOFT SCIENCE2003 (Installation of two sculptures with video, Cloned Positions and Red Scare)CLONED POSITIONS (metal sculpture and video projection, 3:40 min. loop) is part of ongoing series, entitled The 23 Songs of The Chromosomes, about popular cultures belief in gene dreams. This work takes an exaggerated look at our phobias about human cloning and how the debate is being framed by our media and our politicians. Cloned Positions uses the psychology of 60s cold war, fear-based tactics to see how this new debate about the body is being couched in terms of national policy. RED SCARE (metal and glass sculpture tube and video lcd monitor, 2:00 min. loop) is part of ongoing series, entitled Soft Science, housed inside a tube-scope, Red Scare reflects the possibilities of (eu)genetic selection. A mini-monitor (2"x2") situated inside an 18" high test tube is seated on a steel metal base. Red Scare reflects the possibilities of contamination. On the mini monitor a video plays an image of a miniature woman trying to escape, repeatedly reaching for the sky. |
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TV NOTAS Project1999-2002 (Performance series with Ximena Cuevas, Mexico City)Posing as the girlfriend of famous video artist Ximena Cuevas, we performed for the media various stories about love, travel and our work. Published: TV NOTAS weekly magazine, various |
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