Make It Rain (∄MIR)

Installation View at Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, 2015 The exchange rate is calculated with the following equation: TOTAL MIR ÷ MIR AVAILABLE = EXCHANGE RATE ARTIST STATEMENT #‎MakeItRainCurrency‬ Make It Rain (∄MIR) is a social practice art project that aims to ask questions about our monetary system while alleviating poverty through microcredit lending. 50% of each ∄MIR sold…

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“Excito Excito”: A Veritable Feast

VIEW FULL PROJECT AT www.EXCITOEXCITO.com Artist Statement Ex-ci’-to-tox-in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid. “Excito Excito”: A Veritable Feast is a collaborative artwork that creates,…

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Fat Free Nirvana

running time: 3:00 2011 HD video, single channel, color sound Artist Statement: Based on Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha’s story of achieving enlightenment through extreme fasting, “Fat Free Nirvana” portrays a Chinese Laughing Buddha trying to lose weight while consuming healthy vegetables. In the beginning the diet shows results, however, after eating the following genetically modified vegetables…

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The Fast Supper

running time: 3:00 2011 HD video, single channel, color sound Artist Statement: Remixing Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”, the video depicts Jesus Christ consuming a variety of processed food including “JFC”, “Crucifries”, “Super Big Guts Soda” and “Holey Grail Donuts” until he explodes in an obesity-inspired rapture. With Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana- O Fortuna”…

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Occupy Wall Street

Artist Statement: In September 2011, a protest movement called Occupy Wall Street took place in Zuccotti Park in New York City. The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. Below is a series of posters I created for…

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腦殘遊記 The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages

Installation view at Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2011 ARTIST STATEMENTS: In response to increasingly pervasive and draconian online censorship in China, “The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages” examines the role of Kuso culture (惡搞文化/ détournement) and its impact on Chinese internet. The Chinese title 腦殘遊記 is a homophonic wordplay to 老殘遊記 (The Travels of Lao…

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