This collaborative mixed-media installation immerses visitors in the queer camp imagery of natural and neoliberal landscapes that are marked by the transnationally prevalent real estate economies. Pulling images and video footage from Istanbul, Turkey, and Durham, NC, as well as landscape photography, geology textbooks, and print advertisements from the1960s and 70s, this tripartite installation alludes to the widespread social, aesthetic, and material consequences of real estate economies as well as to the necessity of building queer resilience and forging queer futures out of disparate scraps of the past and present.
This project draws attention to two cities, namely Istanbul, Turkey and Durham, NC (USA), that are very far apart yet experience similar and concurrent challenges with regards to the pace of urban renewal. The project was completed in collaboration with Jesa Rae Richards, Drew Anderson, Billy Dee Douglas, Randall Leach, and Ariel Springfield.
This project was commissioned by the Walker Art Center's youth programming WAC Attack and was executed in collaboration with illustrator and art faculty Jenny Schmid. The project invited audience members to make landscape collages out of old magazines, these collages were captured by tiny robotic cameras controlled via mobile phones and interlaced for a collective real time live cinema performance.
This project invited audience members to manipulate up to ten projected head animations going through gender transformation of sorts projected on urban landscapes.