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, hybrid forms, 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.
- (Get) READY/UNREADY (With Me): the short film (2024)
- 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.
Inside the Pearl I (Preface): A Speculative Optical Analysis
Experimental "speculative" optical (as opposed to art historical, in the strictly narrative sense) analysis of Johannes Vermeer's Mistress and Maid and J.M.W. Turner's Cologne, The Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening at The Frick Collection (UES, New York).
Haim Steinbach:Five Easy Pieces
Review of Haim Steinbach's Five Easy Pieces at Tanya Bonakdar (Chelsea, New York).
Jeff Koons at Gagosian
Review of Jeff Koons's new Porcelain Series at Gagosian (Chelsea, New York).
Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties
Review of Mary Boone and Brett Gorvy's co-curated retrospective group show at Lévy Gorvy Dayan (UES, New York).
Control Environment
Review of P. Staff's debut New York solo show Possessive at David Zwirner (UES, New York).
TOY STORY
Review of the group show TOYS TOYS TOYS at SPIELZEUG in collaboration with 1 DAY AT A TIME (LES, New York).
Object Lessons
Review of Adam Milner's show Meanwhile at RAINRAIN (Soho, 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 (LES, New York) for Peter BD's Gallery Anniversary featuring Nicholas William Johnson's "Untitled (submerged gallery)" (2022).
Visual & Curatorial Projects
The Third Dimension is Time
An experimental narrative short film conceived and produced for Olney Gleason’s “Painting, Photography, Painting" (8 January - 14 February 2026). Engages with a range of filmic and painterly textures/techniques to investigate personifying relations with objects and objectifying relations with people. “The Third Dimension is Time” refers to the third dimension (time) applied to the two-dimensional medium of image (painting or photography): the process that transforms the latter into film, or “the moving picture.” It also describes the third dimension of (time-based) perception by which viewers relate to works of art across media. Do we project onto art or does it project onto us? Per Nicolas Bourriaud: “Is it still possible to generate relationships with the world?” In step with developments in optical technology, paintings have always meant as much as their viewer has the capacity to see and feel.
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.
(get) READY/UNREADY (with me)
Frames the GRWM video as (self-directed/self-acted) short film; conceived to accompany the eponymous Spike Art Magazine essay. Video art exploring ekphrastic skincare semiotics, semiotics of appearances (and their preparation), plus a bit of decision theory: to go OUT or stay IN?
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.