“In June 2019, I traced the fourteen dams of the Colorado River with my body over the course of three weeks, creating a haptic and indexical mapping of a series of structures that are abjectly sublime in their inability to be adequately represented. How else to meet this stolid performance of patriarchal power than with my own queer performativity?

This body of work proposes dams as “settler colonial land art”—immense sculptures that shift the topographies and futures of our environments—where the materials of concrete, wood, and steel are jammed tightly into rock, dirt, and clay. The absurd or invented documentation of this site-specific performance connects the architecture of the land with the architectures of our bodies, both of which are shaped by the same complex flows of power and ideology. Sites of repression (both psychic and structural) generate immense amounts of energy. With this work, I propose an ethics of staying in and grappling with the trouble: creating space for grief, wit(h)ness, and response-ability.”

See it here: https://www.artforum.com/spotlight-programs/calarts-83224?idx=16