Creative Capital

The P*archy is speculative fiction in the form of a graphic novel. It traces the shared history of Laura (human) and jjchess (auto-evolving social media code). It will be serially published on the Internet, jjchess's home and an important locus of the book's events. Programming of quasi-random elements complicates the relationship between text and visual elements, including drawings, photographs and time-based media.

Horizon captures 40 simultaneous performances directly engaging horizon lines worldwide, and video streams these distant horizons live, side-by-side on expanding webpages as actions unfold around the world. Horizon initiates 4Orientations, a groundbreaking five-year live film/performance series, Internet streamed and shown in theaters and galleries live from similarly structured synchronized actions worldwide.

American Terror will result in a fully produced series of performances of a full-length, non-traditional opera. Eight alternating pairs of both male and female singers, accompanied by appropriated and repurposed piano music of Haydn and Scriabin, will portray William F. Buckley and Noam Chomsky debating America's involvement in Vietnam.

Alone Together is an audience-participatory polymetric music and dance installation with interactive and live-performance elements. That sounds more complicated than it is: It is essentially a multi-layered composition in which audience members select layers to listen and dance to, thus becoming part of a polyrhythmic choreography.

The piece—a theatricalized science experiment—will consist of: photographs, data plots, several theatrical performances for the purpose of data collection, the sculptural/installation elements of the "waiting room" and "laboratory" where the performances take place, as well as the final performance in the form of a lecture/presentation of data.

The Complete & Condensed O'Neill Volume 2 continues the adventure into the subconscious of a great American playwright by removing his dialogue and condensing his plays down to pure action. Volume 2 focuses on another collection of his earliest and unknown works, carrying forward and provoking the experiment that began with Volume 1.

Invisible is a long-form video/sound installation project that asks: What if the transatlantic slave trade never happened? What if it was erased from history books? The current episode, Saved is a series of live site-specific performances in memory of the lives and violent deaths of Laura and L.W. Nelson in 1911.