My artistic practice is facilitating collaborative and interactive investigations designed to discover alternative methods of communication and new expectations of human potential. My purpose with this work is the pursuit of knowledge, alleviating the critical effects of injustice, and participating in creative communities. With these diverse goals, my work does not simply occupy the sites it exists in or interpret the disciplines it overlaps but participates in expanding the languages that define them.
2/06 Statement
My artistic practice is the facilitation of collaborative investigations, as well as interactive installations that attempt to uncover shared human values and inspire dynamic readings of our surroundings. By focusing on collaboration and interaction, I allow my work to explore the unknown in order to create new discussions, discover new methods of communication, and propose new expectations of human potential.
I place my work within an art context for many reasons, the foremost is that I am interested in participating in a field focused on discussion of aesthetic values as well as identifying how current cultural definitions are created. By putting my work within traditions of the interactive and site specific work of Joseph Beuys, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Mel Chin, David Hammond and Andrea Zittel, I am able to create work where I am a participant in a democratic process of articulating cultural values. By positioning collaborative and interactive processes that address issues of consequence and connect to a wide audience, values express themselves through new interactive and creative communities.
These interests dictate that my work situates itself in a variety of unlikely venues — civic events, low income neighborhoods, dying industries — and then allows the work to overlap with a diverse set of other fields such as public service, sociology, philosophy, engineering and education. But the work does not simply occupy these sites and address these fields, it helps to define them.