the objects project
“objects” is a collaborative project of cheyanne epps and kyle lane-mckinley that shines light on the structural imbalance of power between police officers and ordinary individuals by researching, illustrating, and mapping incidents in which police officers have mistaken a commonplace object for a weapon, thereby authorizing the use of deadly force. epps and lane-mcKinley are […]
the objects project at “visual activism”
SF MoMA and the International Association of Visual Culture have invited Cheyanne Epps and myself to present the objects project at a symposium titled “Visual Activism” this coming weekend. The Visual Activism Symposium has been organized by Julia Bryan-Wilson (UC Berkeley), Jennifer González (UC Santa Cruz) and Dominic Willsdon (SF MoMA). We’re on a panel […]
fort for tuli
*Some* have argued that I spent too long building this fort, given that it is sure to disintegrate after one or two winter rains. But Tuli likes it quite a lot, so how much time is too long? This fort made almost entirely from moving boxes, is complete with vaulted ceilings, two tunnels, a second […]
book shelves for David and Laura
my friends David Lau and Laura Martin are having a kid soon, and needed to turn their office into a baby room, which has meant moving their sizable book collection into the living / dining room. I designed and built this book case and entertainment center for them out of birch veneer plywood, which is […]
pescadero bike project outing to a local ranch
This past Sunday folks from the bike project that I helped organize in Pescadero headed out to a near-by ranch to wrench on some bikes in sore need of some love, right there on site. It was a lovely and educational afternoon, with a ton of volunteer mechanics coming in from as far away as […]
collaboration with Lanier Sammons and Wes Modes
Lanier Sammons is Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History this summer. At the suggestion of dear, dear Stacey Garcia, he contacted me and Wes Modes about collaborating on some devices he was imagining to prompt interactions between audience and musicians at the MAH’s “Santa Cruz Music Night” event. Here […]
pescadero bike booth at zero1 garage
In Spring of 2012 I worked with some folks from Puente de la Costa Sur (PUENTE) to start a free bike repair booth at the farmers market in in Pescadero, CA., where there are a lot of folks who are dependent on their bicycles, but no local resources for fixing them. Slow to start, the […]
Santa Cruz Handmade Bicycle Art Show*
My former student, Dean Schimmel, and I collaborated on a piece that will be in a show he organized at the People Power office. First Friday tomorrow– come say hello! *note that it is handmade bicycle art– ie, art about bikes– rather than bicycles per se that are on display.
this is not a sign ‘zine
A rather silly attempt to “theorize” a rather silly collection of interventionist “street signs” that I made in the fall of 2000. The zine was made around the same time for Chris Connery’s “space” seminar in the UC Santa Cruz world literature dept, a course that has had many after lives.