[2.8, 9, 5, ∞]
2024
A plant blown by an office fan sets off the autofocusing algorithm of a telephoto lens.
Temporary Introductions
2021 – ongoing
Provisional Readymades (auction catalogue) with Daisy Charles
European Council Regulation No. 866/2004 establishes special rules for the areas of Cyprus “temporarily outside the area of freedom, justice and security,” including permitting the temporary introduction of goods from Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus into the Republic of Cyprus if they are to be exhibited or used at a public event. This dispensation is triggered when the sum of the value of the goods exceeds €260. Following the procedures enumerated by the regulation, the goods were accompanied by an auction catalogue “providing reasonable evidence” of their intended exhibition.
After their mandatory exhibition at the NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol (Republic of Cyprus), the objects were sold on the condition of their long-term loan to the S.N.K. Venus Home Developers Ltd (liquidated 2011) Study Collection in Pyla, a bicommunal village located in the United Nations buffer zone.
Temporary Introductions (₺166.10/€28), 2021
Taking Longer and Producing Less
Conjuncture, 2020
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Exhibition invitation on custom-printed institutional letterhead, animated by the USPS’ automatic mail imaging program.
Immovable Properties
Immovable Properties, 2020
1BBP, New York, NY
The fifth preference EB-5 visa provides a path to citizenship for alien investors who make an investment of capital not less than the statutory minimum in a new commercial enterprise “which will benefit the United States economy” and “create permanent, full-time employment” for at least 10 qualifying U.S. workers in the United States. The EB-5 program allows the state to extract monopoly rent on its exclusive territorial sovereignty and its prerogative power of immigration enforcement; the evaporation of traditional real estate financing since the 2008 financial crisis has made major development projects reliant on the program to maintain favorable profit margins.
An exhibition is staged in a donated real estate venue constructed under the EB-5 program. The venue is left open to the public for the exhibition duration.
Distinction, 2020
Press submitted in satisfaction of the evidentiary criteria for O-1B
and EB-1 ("artist’s") visas
PERMANENT, FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, INC., 2020
New Commercial Enterprise (NCE) established to satisfy the
requirements of the EB-5 visa, pending activation by an investment of
capital in an amount not less than the statutory minimum by an
immigrant investor
Trilogy (Limassol Seafront), 2019
C-Prints of development projects animated by Cyprus’
citizenship-by-investment program
Liquid Allowance,
2020
Air travel-compliant resealable bags with potable water
Fixture, 2020
Materials at One Brooklyn Bridge Park provided by Licensor (Chashama,
Inc.) in excess of those provided by Landlord (RAL Companies, Vanke
US, and Oliver’s Realty Group) to equip the exhibition space
灰色市场 (Gray Market)
Exit Strategy, 2019
NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
Greek-Chinese language textbooks issued by the Confucius Institute, overprinted with images of looted artifacts from the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Counterfeited in Cyprus with funds furnished by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, priced in CNY with a managed floating exchange rate.
Untitled (Artist’s Calling Cards)
2017
Magnetic stripe cards encoded to unlock ATM vestibules.