My work is an inquiry into what can happen when seemingly divergent paths converge, when access is given to the individual to act, explain, subvert, and/or participate. I focus on the potentiality of the individual who lives richly while being non-productive in the current economic model, and the importance of inefficiency and slowness which allows for the occurrence and notice of the delightful accident. This, combined with my interest in how individual agency is created while community networks are developed and strengthened, has led to recent projects involving the creation of a series of temporary forums for exchange and learning, which question the role of the specialist while bringing seemingly divergent groups together around a shared interest. The resulting events and scenarios question the notion of the specialist or authority of a subject, through the creation of dynamic learning environments where conversation is undirected. The role of the participant, authority, specialist, and amateur shifts with the topic under discussion.
In these projects, attention is drawn to the process of making and doing, where an invitation to taste homemade cheese becomes a springboard for conversation where shared concerns and stories emerge and learning is a fluid open engagement; an old wooden boat functions as a catalyst for on-shore collaborations and as a bastion of independence and possibility while on the high seas; and a chicken expo questions issues of aesthetics and the the boundaries of legitimacy within the art institution. My projects are structured around a deceptively simple, seemingly unpolitical, often absurd, construction which pushes the question of function out of art theory and into social and community systems.