Paris + English = Parish (2006) is a composition with three elements – color, voice, and text. The piece begins where all three elements are asynchronous in their relationship to each other, and gradually progresses to be finally “in chorus”. The objective is to question the relationship between sight and sound and how voice or voices can be linked to degrees in saturation of a color. The text read aloud by three men draws from Derrida’s Memoirs of The Blind, where he explicates drawing as a memory-act, one where a kind of direct seeing is replaced with a mediated one which is itself blind.
Cheerleading is all about synchronicity, until you fall and hurt yourself (2009) is a collage that, through a sportive lens, takes an ironic view on all kinds of drills which are meant to synchronize and therefore educate people. Famous for 'drilling' erotic fantasies, dreams and desires into generations of school kids the cheerleader girl is emblematic for hetero-normative sexual behaviour and success. Keep the rhythm and you are sexy is the cheerleader dictum. A cheerleader that is out of sync is not only bad for the team but also not attractive. However, if you are asynchronous and fall make sure you fall from the top of the pyramid... and hit the blonde team captain.
