indexing my monologue

translations (on evidence, untranslatable futures, and other drawings) III,
etched latex, etched silicone, pins, pigment paper, aluminum frame, 11 x 14 inches, 2020

translations (on evidence, untranslatable futures, and other drawings) III, 2020
graphite on wall, etched latex, etched silicone, pins, pigment paper, aluminum frame, 11 x 14 inches each

translations (on evidence, untranslatable futures, and other drawings) III,
UV curing on mirrored dibond, pigment paper, aluminum frame, 11 x 14 inches, 2020

untitled (wrdpwrmdesy), book pages, graphite, nails, aluminum frames, 11 x 14 inches each
INDEXING MY MONOLOGUE, single-channel video, 7 mins 25 secs, silence, mdf, mirror, 2020

installation view

INDEXING MY MONOLOGUE, 2020, 3 min excerpt

INDEXING MY MONOLOGUE redacts the English language, its institutional devices and teachings within the context of US immigration history. Through research-collage-moving poetry, the video reflects on language and its relations to bureaucracy, diaspora, and legibility. The work indexes towards opacity and imagined bibliographies.

further reading:
The Brooklyn Rail