Media Artist

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USC Pacific Asia Museum
July 23 - September 4, 2022

2020; 6:50m
a large-scale three-channel video installation on handmade screens that explores the intersections of the Civil Rights movement in high fashion and the labor unrest in the garment industry during the long 70s in the global context of the Vietnam war. The work explores shared political and physical “movements” made manifest in the catwalk, the run, and the march.

a casual game that reworks the event of Brisenia Flores’s death at the hands of border vigilantes into a hopeful tale. Her story is important to our current culture as an example of political hate speech that dehumanizes immigrants with a violent and fatal outcome. Brisenia’s murder helped to precipitate the demise of the border-watch movement in America and raises questions about belonging, for beyond the injustice of her cruel and senseless killing is the fact that she and her family can trace their ancestry back for hundreds of years in Arizona’s history.
Play game here.