TRANSCORPOREAL — microplastics in drinking water, Troy, NY
2024



This installation, completed while in residence at EMPAC, functioned as a meditative space to consider the contradictions of the Anthropocene and the purity politics underlying acts of consumption. Features a local citizen science microplastics project. 

Perfume and sensory installation representing volatile organic chemical (VOC) phenomena releated to drought and rising average temperatures.

This installation, strcutured as an alternative archive (or “anarchive”), focuses on the collapse(s) of material categories in the Anthropocene and questions the boundaries between “natural” and “human-made.”

Currently on view as part of the Wellcome Collections’s permanent exhibition “Being Human,” this sculpture represents a DIY method for desalinating water.
Filed under: Object, Food, Climate

An experimental scent blending the smell of petrichor (dirt after rain), preserved oyster and reishii mushrooms, and fungal decay.
Filed under: Olfactory, Fungi, Sensory


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