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Learning To Breathe Underwater
2010

The drapery of the canopy bed is projected through dishes of water animated by fans. The viewer uses an aluminum “slipping slide” fastened to an overhead projector to activate the act of intercourse between the prince and mermaid.

Learning to Breathe Underwater and House on Fire, 2010

Installation view from the Musée d’Art Contemporain’s Sobey 2010 exhibition. Learning to Breathe Underwater is a composited, and projected drawing of a prince having sex with a mermaid on a canopy bed. It is made using three video projections and five overhead projections.


Video documentation of this installation.

The Thief of Mirrors, 2013

The Thief of Mirrors (Installation)
2012
Installation view

Two of the overhead projectors are interactive, and the animated gestures and gender transmutations are activated when the viewer moves slides across a lenticular surface on the overhead projector.

The Thief of Mirrors, 2013

Installation view of a registered projection at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The panoramic, projected image is created using six overhead projectors and three video projectors, all registered together on one wall, to depict the image is of a figure lying in a baroque interior, before a shattered mirror in a pool of blood, holding a large mallet.

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