Colonialist R&R, 2009
Three-channel video installation. Running time: 4:27.
Colonialist R&R is featured throughout the month of October in the 10th annual Chaos Theory exhibition at Legend City in Phoenix, AZ. From the series Our Land Your Imagination, this multichannel video installation (featured here in quad screen format) examines colonialist expressions of strength, endurance and tactics through various forms of recreational activities in the subdivisions of suburban Phoenix.
Suburban Bush is from a series of two-dimensional work titled Semiotic Warfare. The series utilizes short, stark, poignant and ironic phrases written in Cherokee syllabary, and a variety of media, to examine postcolonial signifiers that define contemporary geographies, economic markets, political bodies and intercultural intercourse throughout North America. In this work the Cherokee syllabary becomes a transformative medium of Cherokee propagation and cultural/political self-determination. By engaging the viewer, the architecture of a particular space and the broader contexts of a particularized regional geography the work becomes a semiotic vehicle of hemispherical decolonization — physically, politically and cognitively.
Semiotic Warfare: Suburban Bush, 2008
Mixed media (video with sound, automobile paint and acrylic mirror on wood panels), 46″ x 12″. Featured in the exhibition Chaos Theory 9 at Legend City Studios, Phoenix, Arizona. Image courtesy of Jason Grubb, Legend City Studios.
