What Does Illegal Look Like?, 2012
6 cardboard signs
Barricade, 2012
A series of drawings based on the barricades built by protesters during different protests.
Proclamations, 2011
A performance that consists of a group of people singing a song - the lyrics of which are derived from various letters, found on the internet, written in protest of human rights violations. By focusing international attention on sites in which human rights are violated these letters give voice to the oppressed, generate action, prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.
No More Handouts! We Bite The Hand!, 2011
In the video No More Handouts! We Bite The Hand! a young woman with the aid of an unconventional projection device recites anti-capitalist political slogans in the middle of an empty parking lot. Inspired by slogans chanted by activists during recent mass demonstrations, the slogans chanted by the young woman in the video, not only are an expression of ones opinions and objection to particular events, policies or situations, but a call to action, for people to rise from their slumber and demand revolution.
We Are America, 2011
A performance based project that addresses social and political issues concerning immigrants rights in the United States. I am interested in the use of Downtown Los Angeles as the site of numerous marches and rallies against U.S. immigration policies. The performance consists of a group of people marching through the streets of Downtown Los Angeles while holding an american flag that has a slogan printed on it. The slogans printed on the flags are the ones that people chanted or had printed on their placards and banners during the March 25, 2006 protests over proposed changes to U.S. immigration policies that took place in Downtown Los Angeles.
The Practical Side of Myth-Making, 2011
Shields made out of inner tubes, Tute Bianche timeline
A Manual For Revolution, 2011
An installation piece centered on a timeline from 1994 to 2011 drawn in a straight horizontal black line across the gallery walls. Eighteen descriptions of specific political demonstrations and struggles from around the world are mounted below the timeline. Reproductions of banners, posters, t-shirts with slogans and a variety of signs as well as other renderings of objects that were used during political protests are placed around the timeline.
Forms Of Protest (Bandanas), 2010
Black bandanas, White letter foam stickers
Dimensions Variable
Free Speech Zone, 2010
C-print
18” x 24”
From Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, 2009
Shoe Box, Tomatoes dipped in ink, Cardboard sign
Mega-Helmet, 2009
C-print
36” x 48”
Birding, 2009
C-print
18” x 24”
The Natural Suspension of Being, 2008
Para Ser Feliz, 2007
The video Para Ser Feliz explores the use of simplistic advices that come from femenine magazines, used by the readers as prescriptions to reach an ideal life. In the video a young woman walks by the nocturnal streets of the Santurce and Hato Rey boroughs of Puerto Rico with a megaphone in hand announcing a list of guides of things to do in order to obtain happiness in life. The phrases, inspired by New Age philosophies like Zen and Feng Shui, have been altered and turned into absurd sentences that accentuate the comedic-tragic thing of this peculiar act. Far from surrendering before her pathetic luck, the young woman, with her firm and challenging walk, becomes a heroic and provoking being.
BurstOut, 2006
BurstOut takes place in the community of San Mateo de los Cangrejos in Santurce, Puerto Rico. In the now empty Iglesias Street where reisdents were evicted and their homes demolished, a pneumatic tire connected to an air compressor suddenly appears and starts to inflate itself. While the tire is expanding and becomes deformed by the air pressure generated from the compressor, we see a community in ruins, deformed by the process of urban development that has begun in the Santurce district. The process of gentrification, like the air pressure generated by the compressor that ultimately causes the tire to explode, not only makes property owners wealthy and boosts local tax revenues, but also has negative consequences such as displacement and isolation.
