I live and work in New York City and start a position in the Department of Art at the University of Buffalo in Fall 2022. I work across photography, narrative texts, schemata, objects and film. My work is drawn from the methods and histories of a wide range of research and disciplines: from design, architecture, literature, theatre and cinema, to the histories of labour, forensic science, risk management and insurance. Using the language and methods from non-visual enterprises such as law and finance, my work seeks to retool the operable systems of these subsequent languages, institutions and power structures as a mode of artistic research and production.

For my residency, I will be working on ‘The Labor of Sleep’, a filmic work looking to examine the offset of costs (in the broadest sense) of the laborer, in particular those working within the hospitality sectors (large chain hotels). In reference to Jonathan Crary’s 24/7 in which he states that “sleep is an uncompromising interruption of the theft of time from us by capitalism”, the project’s aim is to examine the time, changing labor laws and wages in conjunction with sleep/and or lack of sleep leading to insomnia. The film’s specific function would be to put one to sleep through its watching, and/or a form of entertaining endurance for those suffering from insomnia.