Theory-Essays
The Exoskeleton of Glamour
Tracks the evolution of glamour as a protective and decorative shell: from the forms of the biological world through the porcelain oshiroi of geisha, the personal and public architectures of urbanization, the chimerical designs of Thierry Mugler, and the hyper-contemporary android via Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell (1995).
Working Charli xcx Out On the Remix
Through the slime-green filter of Charli xcx's brat album cycle, applies the psychoanalytic relationship between surface / subterranea to art-making in the public eye. Investigates world-building autofiction, myopic pluralism, the mass dispersive qualities of pop aesthetics, and "meme sincerity."
(Get) READY/UNREADY (With Me)
Featured essay in Spike Issue #78 (Winter 23/24): "The Night." Explores self-commodification and optimization culture via social and aesthetic performance. In a binary market, to become the night is to prepare for it by displacing the desire for appearances and experiences onto products, rituals, and one's own face. Either you're in or you're out.
- Included alongside work by Marie Dariesseque, Johanna Hedva, and Johan Eklöf in programming hosted at Baleno International in Rome, Italy by curator Caroline Drevait and Sofia Gallarate.
The Internet is Forever
In the mistake culture produced by an era of surveillance, our idea of the good isn't defined by action, but its appearance, and the power to make truth boils down to who keeps the receipts. Posits an imagistic theory of moral forms: "non-ethics."
- Cited alongside Fredric Jameson's "The End of Temporality" (1991), George Bataille's "The Solar Anus" (1927), Hito Steyerl's "Duty-Free Art" (2015), and Jack Burnham's "Software: Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art" (1970) in Session 1 (January 30, 2024) of the multi-part lecture series / discussion group In Search of a Cyber Consciousness hosted virtually and in-person at the Laboratorio Tangencial de Arte Posnacion in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Girlblogging
Experimental film theory / analysis series: explores the dispersion and reception of "poor image" screenshots and gifs as a metaphor for the commercial distribution of "girlhood" across capsular representations of "girl characters" (cf. Tiqqun's Young-Girl). Each essay analyzes one film through the lens / framing of a singular still.
Art Criticism & Texts
Editors' Selects
Monthly exhibition highlights from members of the Impulse editorial team in New York and beyond.
Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties
Review of Mary Boone and Brett Gorvy's co-curated retrospective group show at Lévy Gorvy Dayan (New York).
Control Environment
Review of P. Staff's debut New York solo show Possessive at David Zwirner (New York).
TOY STORY
Review of the group show TOYS TOYS TOYS at SPIELZEUG in collaboration with 1 DAY AT A TIME (New York).
Object Lessons
Review of Adam Milner's show Meanwhile at RAINRAIN (New York).
Method Living
Marina Abramović mini-monograph: psychoanalytic "method" performance art experiment via Close Friends story. Review of "Marina Abramović Longevity Method" natural wellness supplements for Spike Issue #80 (Summer 24): "The State of the Arts."
ENTER THE ART WORLD
Retrospective exhibition meta-text (in partial form of a two-act play) commissioned by Foreign & Domestic (New York) for Peter BD's Gallery Anniversary featuring Nicholas William Johnson's "Untitled (submerged gallery)" (2022).
Visual & Curatorial Projects
LOSERS
In meme-format, maps the compressed semiotics of feminine tropes against the "great power politics" of interpersonal connection in our contemporary digital ecosystem. Commissioned for Sterling Wongchoi by Tiffany Lee. Collaboration with photographer Andi Bierlein. Outfits provided by Sullivan Clothing.
Fiction
Alternative Methods of Communication
Also in print.
Poetry
En Plein Air / In an Emergency / Valley of the Myrtles
- "En Plein Air" selected for inclusion in Plain China: National Anthology of the Best Undergraduate Writing (Volume X).
Rotary Dial
- Also published in The Lyric Magazine (Winter 2021).
Other Critical Work
Tops & Flops 2023
Sugar World by jonatanleandoer96, Yuhan Wang's SS24 RTW Fata Morgana, viral perfume Bianco Latte, Jon Rafman / Parker Ito's Poets, Gamblers, Fools at Lubov (New York), the internet via Skibidi Toilet.