My artistic practice is grounded in historical materialism and looks to possibilities triggered by emerging technologies. Theoretical influences include David Harvey, Keller Easterling, Saskia Sassen, and Brian Holmes on uneven geographic development; Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial discourses; Jacques Ranciere’s distribution of the sensible; and Chantal Mouffe’s agonisms and counterhegemonies. Artistic influences include Martha Rosler's and Hans Haacke’s social systems; Andrea Fraser’s institutional critique; Bureau d'Etudes, Laura Kurgan, and Warren Sack's relational mappings, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ poetic retooling of sociopolitical engagement.
These approaches to thinking and making all share the conception that art is never neutral. In a media-driven, supersized first world, the production and distribution of images as ideological apparatuses is crucial to war, peace, or the development of an altogether new world.
I believe that the combination of critical thought and practice generates better ways of living in the world. I consider my individual practice as part of a collective yet decentered, global movement for counterhegemony. This is a movement that fights for the right to difference and equality, not as end goals, but as starting points for human life. It is the dominant rationale for my work and the projects I produce as an artist living in an age of endless war and segregated peace.
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