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Concrete Republic
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Prison Farm

Watchtower
Katrina
The Dog Tail Wars
Empire/Umpire
Hostis
Body Fluid Bed
Hanging Creatures

Homeless Deaths  
Poster Project
Full Shackle
Sapa
Swollen Eye
Frontiers
Deed

Every Revolution
Forces
Boarder
Surveillance Chair
Suite
Cruise Control

Ostrich
The Big Silence
Asylum Screamed
Think No Evil
Belfast
Crisus

HOSTIS

2001
Works/San Jose
San Jose, CA

Hostis, an installation exploring the “nature of enemy,” opened days after September 11th. Although it had been scheduled prior to 9/11, it became a forum to discuss this new reality. The installation included a soundtrack by Bradford Cat (Los Angeles) exploring the concept of enemy and an area for the audience to respond through drawing, painting, and writing. As the audience entered the gallery, they were confronted by a 62-foot double ramp of clothes and dirt that I had built in response to visiting Cambodia’s killing fields. These two opposing ramps collided, capturing between them a caged area of undulating clothes driven by a motorized substructure. Below the ramps and on the walls were related projections by Christopher Furman (Chicago). Though I had intended to use the clothes and dirt to speak of those uninvolved victims of conflict, this image took on new significance as crews sifted through the rubble of the Twin Towers looking for survivors.

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