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Song of Me and Myself (detail)

Song of Me and Myself (detail)

Acrylic on Paper, A3, 2011
Page 26 of 77, an erasure of William Carlos Williams' "Song of Myself."

[asphodel], detail

[asphodel], detail

Acrylic on Paper, A3, 2012


Page 3 of 17, an erasure of William Carlos Williams' "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower."

[asphodel]

[asphodel]

Acrylic on Paper, 17 Sheets of A3, 2012

Erasure of William Carlos Williams' "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower."

Actual Pain

Actual Pain

(from I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET), Typewriter on Paper,

4x6, 2012

One page of I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (Keep This Bag Away from Children Press, 2012), an unbound poetry book of 45 typewritten pages.

" -- "

" -- "

(from I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET), Typewriter on Paper, 4x6, 2012

One page of I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (Keep This Bag Away from Children Press, 2012), an unbound poetry book of 45 typewritten pages. 

I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET

I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET

Unbound Book of Poetry, 45 Sheets of 4x6 paper, 2012

I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (Keep This Bag Away from Children Press, 2012) is an unbound typewritten book of poetry. After a first edition went out of print, it was reprinted in 2014.

Installation view from Other Titles (solo show) at Buro Broken Dimanche (Berlin, DE). 

W8ING

W8ING

Still from 09:22 Digital Video, 2014

W8ING (Gauss PDF, 2014) is the first of three chat-platform adaptations of French Absurdist plays that comprise my most recent trilogy, The Anti-Plays.

W8ING sets iMessage as the stage for Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Installation View, from Eugen Gomringer& at Bielefelder Kunstverein (Bielefeld, DE). 

One day, the sadness will end

One day, the sadness will end

Digital Collage, A4, 2014

One day, the sadness will end is one of the digital subtitle collages that comprise a 2014 project called sous_titre. 

Feminlist

Feminlist

Thermal Printing on Scroll, 2014

Feminlist (Coconut, 2014) is an ongoing multimedia poem that aims to catalogue feminine gendered versions of commonplace and proper nouns, such as rowomance or Gerwomany.

Installation view of Feminlist, from Poetry Will Be Made by All! at LUMA/Westbau (Zurich, CH). 

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0

Still from 08:47 Digital Video, 2014

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0; or, English Made Easy (Gauss PDF, 2014) is one of the three chat-platform adaptations of French Absurdist plays that comprise my most recent trilogy, The Anti-Plays.

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0 sets Gchat as the stage for Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano. This still is featured in the MEDIA issue (#98) of Texte zur Kunst (June 2015). 

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0

Performance with Video, 2014

Still shot from a performance of TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0; or, English Made Easy (Gauss PDF, 2014) with video, on the occasion of Hans Ulrich Obrist's Ways of Curating book launch at Swiss Institute. 

Young Nymph (reel)

Young Nymph (reel)

from Not Sorry, Stereoscopic Slide Reel, 2014

Not Sorry is a series of 42 images (6 reels of 7 slides), to be viewed with a View-Master. In collaboration with Rin Johnson.

This reel was photographed at the Jenkins-Johnson booth during Miami Project (December 2014). 

Couldn't We Stand Like This

Couldn't We Stand Like This

Subtitle on Stereoscopic Slide, View-Master slide, 2014

Not Sorry is a series of 42 subtitled stereoscopic slides, to be viewed with a View-Master. In collaboration with Rin Johnson. 

Feminlist

Feminlist

Vinyl Lettering on Fence, 3x157, 2015

Feminlist is an ongoing multimedia poem that aims to catalogue feminine gendered versions of commonplace and proper nouns.

Installation view of Feminlist, from Fia Backstrom: Part III at The Artist's Institute (New York, NY). 

literallydead

literallydead

(two pages), Bound Book of Poetry, 69 Pages, 2015

literallydead (Spork, 2015) explores grief on social media spaces. 

A Street Food Cart Named Desire

A Street Food Cart Named Desire

(from Other Titles), Stamps and Ink on Recycled Paper, 8 x 8, 2015

Page 15 of 25, from Other Titles, a hand-stamped book made on the occasion of an Ace Hotel residency (New York, NY; June 2015). 

100 Years of OKCupid

100 Years of OKCupid

(from Other Titles), Stamps and Ink on Recycled Paper, 8 x 8, 2015

Page 17 of 25, from Other Titles, a hand-stamped book made on the occasion of an Ace Hotel residency (New York, NY; June 2015). 

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5, Still from 08:03 Digital Video, 2015

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5 (Gauss PDF, 2015) is the last of three chat-platform adaptations of French Absurdist theater that comprise my most recent trilogy, The Anti-Plays. It is a Twitter adaptation of Jean Tardieu's The Underground Lovers. 

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5

Performance with Video, 2015

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5 (Gauss PDF, 2015) is the last of three chat-platform adaptations of French Absurdist theater that comprise my most recent trilogy, The Anti-Plays. It is a Twitter adaptation of Jean Tardieu's The Underground Lovers.

Still shot from a performance with video, staged with actors Rin Johnson, Jameson Fitzpatrick and Die Dragonetti, at MoMA PS1 for Greater New York. 

W8ING, (02:00 Clip from 09:22 Video)

2014

These are the first two minutes of W8ING (Gauss PDF, 2014) which sets iMessage as the stage for an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It is the first in my trilogy of French Absurdist theater adaptations entitled "The Anti-Plays."

“W8ING” was featured or mentioned in Jacket2 (2014), Yahoo! (2014), BOMB Magazine (2014), Dazed & Confused (2014), MOTHERBOARD (2014), The New York Times (2014) and The Creators Project (2015). 

Song of Me and Myself (detail)

Acrylic on Paper, A3, 2011
Page 26 of 77, an erasure of William Carlos Williams' "Song of Myself."

[asphodel], detail

Acrylic on Paper, A3, 2012


Page 3 of 17, an erasure of William Carlos Williams' "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower."

[asphodel]

Acrylic on Paper, 17 Sheets of A3, 2012

Erasure of William Carlos Williams' "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower."

Actual Pain

(from I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET), Typewriter on Paper,

4x6, 2012

One page of I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (Keep This Bag Away from Children Press, 2012), an unbound poetry book of 45 typewritten pages.

" -- "

(from I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET), Typewriter on Paper, 4x6, 2012

One page of I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (Keep This Bag Away from Children Press, 2012), an unbound poetry book of 45 typewritten pages. 

I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET

Unbound Book of Poetry, 45 Sheets of 4x6 paper, 2012

I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (Keep This Bag Away from Children Press, 2012) is an unbound typewritten book of poetry. After a first edition went out of print, it was reprinted in 2014.

Installation view from Other Titles (solo show) at Buro Broken Dimanche (Berlin, DE). 

W8ING

Still from 09:22 Digital Video, 2014

W8ING (Gauss PDF, 2014) is the first of three chat-platform adaptations of French Absurdist plays that comprise my most recent trilogy, The Anti-Plays.

W8ING sets iMessage as the stage for Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Installation View, from Eugen Gomringer& at Bielefelder Kunstverein (Bielefeld, DE). 

One day, the sadness will end

Digital Collage, A4, 2014

One day, the sadness will end is one of the digital subtitle collages that comprise a 2014 project called sous_titre. 

Feminlist

Thermal Printing on Scroll, 2014

Feminlist (Coconut, 2014) is an ongoing multimedia poem that aims to catalogue feminine gendered versions of commonplace and proper nouns, such as rowomance or Gerwomany.

Installation view of Feminlist, from Poetry Will Be Made by All! at LUMA/Westbau (Zurich, CH). 

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0

Still from 08:47 Digital Video, 2014

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0; or, English Made Easy (Gauss PDF, 2014) is one of the three chat-platform adaptations of French Absurdist plays that comprise my most recent trilogy, The Anti-Plays.

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0 sets Gchat as the stage for Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano. This still is featured in the MEDIA issue (#98) of Texte zur Kunst (June 2015). 

TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0

Performance with Video, 2014

Still shot from a performance of TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0; or, English Made Easy (Gauss PDF, 2014) with video, on the occasion of Hans Ulrich Obrist's Ways of Curating book launch at Swiss Institute. 

Young Nymph (reel)

from Not Sorry, Stereoscopic Slide Reel, 2014

Not Sorry is a series of 42 images (6 reels of 7 slides), to be viewed with a View-Master. In collaboration with Rin Johnson.

This reel was photographed at the Jenkins-Johnson booth during Miami Project (December 2014). 

Couldn't We Stand Like This

Subtitle on Stereoscopic Slide, View-Master slide, 2014

Not Sorry is a series of 42 subtitled stereoscopic slides, to be viewed with a View-Master. In collaboration with Rin Johnson. 

Feminlist

Vinyl Lettering on Fence, 3x157, 2015

Feminlist is an ongoing multimedia poem that aims to catalogue feminine gendered versions of commonplace and proper nouns.

Installation view of Feminlist, from Fia Backstrom: Part III at The Artist's Institute (New York, NY). 

literallydead

(two pages), Bound Book of Poetry, 69 Pages, 2015

literallydead (Spork, 2015) explores grief on social media spaces. 

A Street Food Cart Named Desire

(from Other Titles), Stamps and Ink on Recycled Paper, 8 x 8, 2015

Page 15 of 25, from Other Titles, a hand-stamped book made on the occasion of an Ace Hotel residency (New York, NY; June 2015). 

100 Years of OKCupid

(from Other Titles), Stamps and Ink on Recycled Paper, 8 x 8, 2015

Page 17 of 25, from Other Titles, a hand-stamped book made on the occasion of an Ace Hotel residency (New York, NY; June 2015). 

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5, Still from 08:03 Digital Video, 2015

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5 (Gauss PDF, 2015) is the last of three chat-platform adaptations of French Absurdist theater that comprise my most recent trilogy, The Anti-Plays. It is a Twitter adaptation of Jean Tardieu's The Underground Lovers. 

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5

Performance with Video, 2015

UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5 (Gauss PDF, 2015) is the last of three chat-platform adaptations of French Absurdist theater that comprise my most recent trilogy, The Anti-Plays. It is a Twitter adaptation of Jean Tardieu's The Underground Lovers.

Still shot from a performance with video, staged with actors Rin Johnson, Jameson Fitzpatrick and Die Dragonetti, at MoMA PS1 for Greater New York. 

W8ING, (02:00 Clip from 09:22 Video)

2014

These are the first two minutes of W8ING (Gauss PDF, 2014) which sets iMessage as the stage for an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It is the first in my trilogy of French Absurdist theater adaptations entitled "The Anti-Plays."

“W8ING” was featured or mentioned in Jacket2 (2014), Yahoo! (2014), BOMB Magazine (2014), Dazed & Confused (2014), MOTHERBOARD (2014), The New York Times (2014) and The Creators Project (2015). 

Song of Me and Myself (detail)
[asphodel], detail
[asphodel]
Actual Pain
" -- "
I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET
W8ING
One day, the sadness will end
Feminlist
TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0
TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0
Young Nymph (reel)
Couldn't We Stand Like This
Feminlist
literallydead
A Street Food Cart Named Desire
100 Years of OKCupid
UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5
UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5
W8ING, (02:00 Clip from 09:22 Video)