Creative non-fiction artist, based in New York City. I make video, lecture performances, and drifts.

Hand of God

Hand of God, (2025), 6’50”

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

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Hand of God, Ghosts of Empire, (2025), 11’30”

It turns out that I was making a ghost film all along.

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.

-Synopsis provided by OpenAI

Close-up of a smiling middle-aged man with gray hair against a black background.

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

A series of drawings of the CEO’s of America’s largest banks, at the time of the financial crisis, recast as high school archetypes.

  • Dick Fuld mirror selfie

    Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers

  • John Thain smoking pot from a soda can

    John Thain, Merrill Lynch

  • Jamie Dimon preppy

    Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase

  • Bob Diamond goth

    Bob Diamond, Barclays

  • John Mack jock

    John Mack, Morgan Stanley

A Vast Neoliberal Zion

“A Vast Neoliberal Zion” is a drift through Hudson Yards, which is to date, the largest private real estate development in the United States.

  • What is a drift?

    A drift is a guided, experimental journey through an urban landscape. Not quite a guided tour and not really a performance, but something in between. This drift through Hudson Yards included poetry, a quiz show round, a photo scavenger hunt and a re-mapping activity.

    Why?

    Drifting can break our routine interactions with urban spaces introduce new ways of thinking and being in cities.

    On this drift through Hudson Yards 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.

I Work in Finance…

But Don’t Hold That Against Me.

Nathaniel Sullivan performance art Amnelysia

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.

Criminal Type Banker Image Composite

All That You Desire

“All That You Desire: Get It All In An Era Of Low Density Hope “ was a drift through Wall Street, in the guise of a business seminar on desire.

Participants were driven by limo to Wall Street and were given a guided tour of capitalism’s most iconic sites while discussing the merits of getting everything you want. We told stories, played games and immersed ourselves 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:

  1. Abstract your desires

  2. Live with contradictions

  3. Become formless

  4. Go into debt (and call it “leverage”)

  • Wall Street Stock Exchange

    All That You Desire - New York Stock Exchange

  • Wall Street Federal Hall

    All That You Desire - Federal Hall

  • Wall Street Chase Plaza 2

    All That You Desire - Chase Plaza 2

  • Wall Street Chase Plaza

    All That You Desire - Chase Plaza

  • Wall Street Limousine

    All That You Desire - The Limousine

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.