Creative Capital

In 1971, an inmate had to choose between going home after 27 years of imprisonment or joining the uprising in Attica. ToasT is a new play that celebrates the poetic history of Black narratives called toasts. The play takes fictional characters from this oral tradition and puts them in a non-fictional setting. The brutal conditions these inmates are living in pushes the young hotheaded Hard Rock to lead a revolution.

The U.S.-Mexico border is central to our political and social life and a source of concern and hysteria. By immersing ourselves in the region, we hope to elevate the level of discourse. The book we plan to publish will be socially beneficial as well as an independent art work.

Art Bar is a new form of cultural infrastructure for New York City, a proposal for transforming the unused space of the obsolete vehicle deck on the Staten Island Ferry into a platform for arts and cultural programming from every borough. It re-imagines the pedestrian experience of the ferry and harbor.

Getting Your Sh*t Together/GYSTInk is an artist project dedicated to making life better for artists by providing tools and resources, information and models for new ways of thinking. I will propose my practice to museums and other artist venues in order to further this new genre for artists. Art As Business=Business As Art. I create software for artists to keep track of just about anything in their art lives as well as publications.

A Host of People presents a performance about the competing, complimentary aspects of nature and technology, which spills into an Old West fable about warring brothers, and gives way to a dance made to a revolutionary poem. Throughout the performance, a wayward "specialist" shakily presents a lecture on fragments, iteration and legacy.

You are my heat and glare is a mixed-genre choreographic project created by Kimberly Bartosik. Inspired by Anne Carson's The Anthropology of Water, the work unfolds in a series of viscerally provocative duets featuring dancers, designers and voice artists. The work will premiere in France in May, 2013, and will have its NYC premiere in December at New York Live Arts.

Turf is both lawn and territory. From backyards to borderlands, turf lawn is protected by fertilizers and legal codes, the apotheosis of the American Dream. At the intersection of art and environment, Turf would include a turf exchange, a lawn garden monitored by an artist and an urban ecologist, and a postcard book documenting the displacement and extraction sites.