Invisibility Suits
This series places the body in landscape to elicit connections between place, belonging, and displacement. The act of various endurance strategies from running, swallowing water and resisting the tide, to sitting with grief are digitally intervened through the use of a greenscreen suit. In contrast to data-moshing, these interventions are all made by the hand: weaving and sweeping. In this way, they are a manual glitch, connecting the past industries of cotton production to contemporary labor.
2011
Sharecropping, 2011.
Duration: 00:28 continuous loop
HD video, green screen suit, Jacquard weaving, cotton dyed with alum and mint leaves.
Filmed in Brazoria County, TX
If You Like Me Now Try Me When I’m Dead, 2011.
Duration: 00:45 continuous loop
HD video, green screen suit, assemblage of previous video work from 2007-10 run through MaxMSP Jitter patch programmed to a twill weave pattern.
Beached, 2012.
Duration: 02:14 continuous loop
HD video, green screen suit, composite with 10ft x 8ft installation of shredded documents, set lighting, and push brooms
filmed at Pacifica State Beach, CA