an other cosmos (genesis) is derived from a larger body of work concerning the presence of the past in the future. Drawing on research of Afrofuurism and science fiction, these images suggest the redeployment of imagery from the deep past in a long future.
Assistant Professor, Audain Faculty of Art
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2011Contingent Matters was a work commissioned by the City of Vancouver for the Aperture Public Art Program at the Vancouver Public Library.
The general concern of Contingent Matters is the provisional character of knowledge as expressed through language. The texts use teriary colours (red-orange, blue-green, etc.) to represent knowledge as a variegated phenomena coloured by things at a distance, always motivated and never neutral. The texts are placed against a...
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2011The Writing Lesson makes reference to the visual typography of the heavy metal subgenre known as black metal in creating a vernacular mode of writing to illustrate place names in Western Canada and Washington with indigenous origins. Early iterations of black metal music created in Norway sought to resurrect aspects of indigenous pre-Christian spirituality that had been violently displaced in the Christianization of Scandinavia by acts such as the destruction of pagan temples...
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2010The Ever-Changing Light is an exploration of simple video technologies and cosmic themes working from the suggestion that video noise indexes the big bang.
Though there is always the possibility it could be something else, The Ever-Changing Light pairs deliberate constructions with incidental and self-generating forms to grasp the unarticulated middle beyond beginnings and the end. Live feed video projections of television static and video-based recursion stand as the visual...