CURATORIAL

Hot+Bothered: Films of Temptation and Personal Destruction

In collaboration with the programmers at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, I organized this series of free outdoor screenings to complement the Eden’s Edge exhibition at the Hammer.

Curatorial

Black Sphinx: On the Comedic in Modern Art

Hmmm…”the Comedic in Modern Art”…yeah I think I’d like to work on that.

Public Program

DARFUR/DARFUR

The Hammer served as the premiere venue for this important and traveling exhibition shedding light on the ongoing tragedies of Darfur.

CURATORIAL

Masters of American Comics

For the Hammer, I curated a full slate of related programs for the exhibition Masters of American Comics. Many of these were reproduced in some form as the exhibition traveled the country.

DESIGN

Hunter Gatherers

It was an honor to provide the poster design for the multiple award-winning play by San Francisco’s own Peter Nachtrieb.

PUBLIC PROGRAM

24 Hour Armageddon Movie Marathon

I lent a Hammer Museum programming assist to this screening organized by Los Angeles photographer Walead Beshty. We screened 24, non-stop hours of movies about, during, or after the end of the world.

CURATORIAL

Société Anonyme: Modernism in America

Produced a season of programming in association with the exhibition organized by Yale University Art Gallery.

VOICE TALENT

Strindberg and Helium

Created in 2001 with Erin Bradley (writer/voice of Helium), Eun-Ha Paek (animator/genius), and Brian Perkins (inspirational force), this series of webisodes has been winning the dark hearts of Goths and Strindberg scholars around the world.

PERFORMANCE/WRITING

YD Industries

A collaboration with George Nachtrieb, I joined in on his already created masterwork of a fake corporate website, www.ydindustries.com and suggested we do live events and imagine what it was like to really work for that company.

PERFORMANCE

The Man Woman Show

Again teaming up with the insanely talented, Erin Bradley, I played Dale to Erin’s Ginny, life partners (he was afraid to commit) who sang love songs in the key of wrong.

PERFORMANCE

Theatre de la Jeune Lune

Of the three companies I would want to be on stage with, this one was at the top.

DRAWING

The Bat Series

The first incarnation of this set of 22 drawings was created for a group exhibition at White Columns in New York, curated by Marisa Olson.

PERFORMANCE

Lovesome

I was doing a lot of internet dating at the time, and this was my tribute to that form.

PERFORMANCE

Moon Transfer

Space Man ends up on the moon. Space man finds a moon slug. Space man is saddened by the loss of all his friends and family so far away.

MUSIC VIDEO

What’s Your Name and Dome

For Brian Perkins, and only Brian Perkins, I made the robot costume and wore it most of the way through What’s Your Name, a video to the song by John Barleycorn.