1/24 at Co-Lab, 2011
Photo installation and performance, 2011, dimensions variable
To create this work I followed stranger Wil Dunham with my camera and tape recorder for 24 hours documenting his actions. 2 weeks later the process was reversed and I became the subject of Wil's documentation. Each night that the show was exhibited at Co-Lab I performed a short work in which I listened to edits of my interviews with Wil and re-embodied his words as though they were my own. Documentation photos by Sean Gaulager.
Co-Lab made a short video about the piece that can be seen here:
http://www.vimeo.com/27672861
To create this work I followed stranger Wil Dunham with my camera and tape recorder for 24 hours documenting his actions. 2 weeks later the process was reversed and I became the subject of Wil's documentation. Each night that the show was exhibited at Co-Lab I performed a short work in which I listened to edits of my interviews with Wil and re-embodied his words as though they were my own. Documentation photos by Sean Gaulager.
Co-Lab made a short video about the piece that can be seen here:
http://www.vimeo.com/27672861
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Inspired by 1/24 for this series I followed an acquaintance I met at the Texas Gay Rodeo for 24 hours and then allowed him to do the same to me. The first image is one of the photographs he took while following me (though I do not appear in the picture) and the second is one of the images I took of him.
Following that experience I repeated the same process with my partner. He and I then generated these two photo collages from the images we created of one another.
Angola Prison Rodeo, 2010
silver gelatin, 2010, 11x14
Angola Prison Rodeo, 2010 looks at how the longest running prison rodeo effects the community that supports it and the prisoners who participate in and observe it. Angola is a small town in Louisiana that is comprised almost entirely of the prisoner and guard population at this maximum security prison and attendees commute from all over the South to attend. The business and traffic that is generated from this event overwhelms the towns resources for two days, requiring cops to direct traffic on the single lane highway from fifteen miles away.
Prisoners who have behaved exceptionally well during the year are allowed to participate or observe from within a large cage that takes up approximately 1/13th of the arena seating. Prisoners who are terminally ill or who are hospice workers are the only ones allowed to view the day's event from outside of the cage. For many relatives of prisoners this event is one of the only times and ways they are able to see their incarcerated family members.
Prisoners who have behaved exceptionally well during the year are allowed to participate or observe from within a large cage that takes up approximately 1/13th of the arena seating. Prisoners who are terminally ill or who are hospice workers are the only ones allowed to view the day's event from outside of the cage. For many relatives of prisoners this event is one of the only times and ways they are able to see their incarcerated family members.
Untitled
2010, silver gelatin, 8x10
