Creative non-fiction artist, based in New York City. I make video, multimedia lecture performances and site-specific guided tours that combine facts with speculative ideas to explore the rituals of power and the limits of reason.
Hand of God, (2025), 6’50”
Hand of God
(2025) 6’30”
The Hand of God, the loss, the feeling of loss. The sun never sets. The last colonial war. The last gasp. Leviathan. A severed hand, for the first colony.
The invisible hand of the free market. We will devour ourselves, and you. The idea of something is more dangerous than the thing itself, the hand has run amok.
The goal of the century was preceded by the hand of God by about four minutes. Grace built on a cheat. Two-nil. The Hand of God, a slight of hand. The invisible hand, a cheat.
Hand of God, Ghosts of Empire, (2025), 11’30”
Hand of God, Ghosts of Empire
(2025), 11’30”
It turns out that I was making a ghost film all along.
Hand of God
Davosboros
Davosboros operationalizes a synergy-driven, value-added multimedia framework to holistically unpack the content ecosystem of high-impact stakeholders, strategically aligning and leveraging storytelling to disrupt legacy power matrices while activating scalable paradigms as a strategic differentiator in the marketplace of ideas.
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The Nation is Bankrupt
The Nation Is Bankrupt tells the story of the financial crisis through the fictional love letters of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
A Seminal Weekend
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Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers
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John Thain, Merrill Lynch
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Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase
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Bob Diamond, Barclays
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John Mack, Morgan Stanley
A Vast Neoliberal Zion
A Vast Neoliberal Zion
“A Vast Neoliberal Zion” is a guided tour through Hudson Yards, which is to date, the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States. The first phase opened in 2019 and consists of eight structures: residences, a hotel, office buildings, a mall, a cultural facility, and a 16-story climbable structure called “The Vessel.”
The vessel to what, exactly?
On this guided tour, which is really a drift, it is important to remember:
Hudson Yards is not a neighborhood.
Hudson Yards is not a shopping mall.
Hudson Yards is not an office or a residence.
Hudson Yards is not a tourist attraction.
Hudson Yards is a monument to neoliberalism.
To walk through Hudson Yards is to feel pulverized by scale, disoriented in your own body. All reflective glass and edges, yet there is no time for reflection.
This is a drift through the intestine of a wretched monster. We will enter through its sphincter. What can we learn from being inside of it?
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Hudson Yards is a pacifying spectacle, an embodiment of the excesses of the global 0.1%. It is also a monument to neoliberalism, a manifestation of absurd legal structures and contradictions endemic to our time.
In the center of Hudson Yards is Thomas Heatherwick’s “The Vessel”, a 250 million dollar + climbable tourist attraction. The thematic spine of the tour is a point of view climb up the Vessel with frequent discursive asides that explore the absurd legal framework that the whole neighborhood is built on. Initial funding for Hudson Yards was gathered by exploiting a gerrymandered map, and a cynical use of shady visa for cash program. In effect, a program designed to pump investment cash into needy neighborhoods in New York City was instead used to build condominiums for the wealthy. This was a multi-billion dollar swindle that happened in plain sight.
The legal absurdity extends into the personal; in an overreaching waiver that all visitors must sign, any images produced of the structure are the property of The Vessel. What’s more, Hudson Yards is a privately owned public space, and the developer, Related, has outlawed all non-approved gatherings and speech. Oh well, so much for the first amendment.
Staring directly at such hypocrisy is infuriating, but the power brokers of the world are ready for our anger. But are they ready for our poetry? For the past few years I have been writing poetry to these ridiculous buildings. At every moment, the tour considers the metaphoric dimension of design choices, legal language, and mapping. The tour ends with a re-mapping of Hudson Yards based on the experience of post-neoliberal drifting.
What it took to build Hudson Yards is an infinite hypocrisy that swallows itself whole only to build bigger, steal more, and write more contracts. This level of depravity requires a kind of manic abstraction to meet it on its own terms. “A Vast Neoliberal Zion” is an experience of entering the beast through its sphincter, and finding a way out.
I Work in Finance…But Don’t Hold That Against Me.
A couple of animated text videos based on conversations I have had with finance professionals over the past decade of living in New York City.
Amnelysia
Amnelysia offers you certainty in an uncertain world. That is of course, if you are a billionaire.
Amnelysia is a corporation offering ultra high net-worth individuals the security of a luxury bunker to last out an ecological collapse, a nuclear war or any man made or natural calamity. We are the broker of billionaire apocalypse bunkers.
The Criminal Type
In the late nineteenth century, British polymath Francis Galton worked with the process of composite photography to verify and illustrate his physiognomic theories. The process was founded on the idea that a person’s character and potential could be established through appearance alone.
This involved exposing a number of individual portraits of chosen groups of people on a photographic plate. The overlapping caused the subjects’ individual physiognomic qualities to vanish and accentuated common characteristics of the chosen group. Groups that Galton often chose to profile were the sick, the criminal and the deranged.
This technique was applied to the CEOs of America’s largest banks; Jamie Dimon from JP Morgan Chase, Lloyd Blankfein from Goldman Sachs, Brian Moynihan from Bank of America, James P Gorman from Morgan Stanley, and Michael Corbat from Citi. The opacity of each layer in the composite was determined by market capitalization, that is the total dollar market value of a company's outstanding shares, of each bank. The background color was determined by the average skin tone of the composite of bankers.
All That You Desire: Get it all in an era of low density hope
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All That You Desire - New York Stock Exchange
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All That You Desire - Federal Hall
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All That You Desire - Chase Plaza 2
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All That You Desire - Chase Plaza
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All That You Desire - The Limousine
“All That You Desire: Get It All In An Era Of Low Density Hope “ was a seminar on desire that was conducted from the back of a limousine and while experiencing a guided walking tour through Wall Street, on October 20th, 2012. Participants were selected from the pool of visitors at the Conflux Festival. The limo travelled through lower Manhattan, the center of global capitalism, and stoped along the route- to tell stories, to play games and to immerse participants in the locations of unabashed desire.
One of the things this environment teaches us (if we listen to it) is that the abstractions of the financial industry can also have a social function. Unmoored from our old moral codes by these abstractions, we are free to want, to get, and in turn, to want more.
What would happen if everyone thought like investment bankers? Here are some lessons from the tour:
Abstract your desires
Live with contradictions
Become formless
Go into debt (and call it “leverage”)
The Last Meal
On New Year's Eve 1995, Francois Mitterrand, the former French president, was dying of prostate cancer. On that night he supposedly had one last orgiastic feast, where he consumed an Ortolan Bunting. The tiny, endangered bird was captured, force fed in darkness and drowned in Armagnac. Ortolan eating began as an ancient Roman practice, and is now an illegal French delicacy. This is the story of a ravenous, cancer ridden president and a bird about the size of your thumb.
CREDITS
The performance is inspired by Michael Paterniti’s Esquire article “The Last Meal”. I use portions of his descriptions of the last meal and the prompt “I wonder what a soul tastes like”. The speculative nature of his article and the tone were huge inspirations for this work.
Paterniti, Michael "The Last Meal” Esquire. June 27 2008
In addition, many of the details of Mitterand’s life and views on religion and politics were sourced from Franz-Olivier Giesbert’s “Dying Without God”.
Giesbert, Franz-Olivier. Dying Without God. New York: Arcade, 1996.
A View From Above
A View From Above is a lecture performance on the statistical and sexual mythology of basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain. He was a lover and a fighter.
A View From Above (Brooklyn Nets Edition), 2013
In 2013, I performed it for one person, at a Brooklyn Nets game. The following is a audio interview to document the experience.