Networked Intimacies

Fantasmagorie was a solo projection installation positioned at the threshold of A Surreal Masquerade at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, greeting visitors as they entered and setting the stage for the event. Drawing on phantasmagoria, the eighteenth-century magic lantern tradition, the work uses Skype-mediated performance and digital glitch to produce flickering, spectral bodies suspended between theatrical illusion and networked communication.

You Were Big in Chicago explores intimate and familial relationships mediated through Skype. Drawing on video calls with loved ones, the work engages digital communication as a site of longing. Large-format images, printed on blueprint paper, were installed and abandoned throughout public spaces in Chicago, displacing private moments into the urban landscape. Hand-stamped memory poems produced on cotton paper were reproduced as posters and installed on train station billboards, extending intimate exchanges into systems of public circulation. Additional works include prints on silk exhibited in gallery contexts and held in private collections. 

​Squirrely juxtaposes two contrasting encounters with the squirrel body through appropriated YouTube footage from two separate videos: in one, a child affectionately handles a dead squirrel while her parents film, later instructing her that she needs to take a bath; in the other, a young boy is taught to hunt squirrel so his mother can prepare “squirrel melts” for lunch, Despite these differing contexts, both videos generated similar forms of online hysteria.

Hockey Fight in Canada examines the circulation and normalization of violence through online media. Using YouTube as source material, the work draws on video clips that glorify fighting within NHL hockey culture, alongside viewer comments that reinforce and amplify this behaviour. Each textile panel is a printed digital photograph taken directly from the artist’s computer screen while the videos were playing.