LIMITED TIME OFFER, 2018

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2-channel video projection, used shopping bags, plexiglass, acrylic paint

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Installation for Two at Ghost Gallery in Brooklyn, NY

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My accompanying text for exhibition catalogue: 

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Moving along, I sense a circular shadow pass overhead. My hands and feet struggle to grip the rounded metal walls, but I can stop long enough to look up—Ahah! A tunnel up. I use my nail to cut a little slit in my arm + remove my microchip. Chucking it upwards, I direct it to explore the pipes. It buzzes up, left, then back right until I can’t hear it anymore. I’m exhausted after that swim...

After a few milliparsecs, the chip returns. I slip it back into my arm, my skin quickly forming a thin membrane over the metal. Downloading + mapping the chip’s movement, I form the image of a giant cube with many sub-cubes— a matrixed grid of pipes underwater. At each corner of the outermost cube,

a pipe leads somewhere else > the ocean, a tank of fresh water, a sewage system, and a vat of unidenti- fied liquids. Above the cube, there is a horizontal plane, probably the basement of the corporation. I search the map for the nearest entry in.

Up, left some meters, up again—a grate! I crack it open and peer around to find an empty room. There is a Plexiglas cube enclosing what seems to be a receptionist’s desk. A small table is wedged in the other corner, two red cushioned chairs flank either side. On the table > pamphlets selling something > a close-up image of a blonde, smiling woman on the cover. A tall rubber plant sits silently to the right of the chairs.

I hear nothing, so I hoist myself up into the room. The carpet smells moldy. A very high pitch buzzes from far away. On the wall behind the desk > four framed images of colorful hot air balloons floating in blue skies. The outside two pictures are actually the same, but the inside two don’t look that different anyway...

Click! Click! Click! Someone must be coming down the hallway....