VORTEX // NYC

Shot on the iPhone 8 and Freefly MoVI by Tim Sessler. Filmed within 48h in NYC.

Damián Ortega: Controller of the Universe

Damián Ortega’s Controller of the Universe (2007) is a frozen explosion of hand tools hovering in an almost dreamlike state. These saws, planes, and axes suggest alternative ways to look at tools, in the hope that the experience will transform the visitor’s own ideas about what tools are and mean. Tools can destroy as easily as they can help construct.

Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers

Documentation of Doug Aitken's exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, January 16-February 12, 2007.

David Spriggs - Gold

Gold (2017) by David Spriggs’ is a chromatic artwork series of Stratachromes. Spriggs’ monumental installation presents eleven inverted yellow-golden human figures painted on layers of transparent sheets that are hung within an inverted pyramid structure. Initially reminiscent of the pediment of the New York Stock Exchange. 1097 x 274 x 76 cm. / 432 x 108 x 30 inches. Yellow acrylic paint on layered sheets of transparent film, triangular gold color structure, lighting units.

Barbara Kruger: Part of the Discourse feat. Untitled (Skate)

While sharing her earliest influences and what led her to become an artist, Barbara Kruger explains the origins of her 2017 Performa commission, "Untitled (Skate)," a site-specific installation at Coleman Skatepark in New York City’s Lower East Side. Growing up in a working class family in Newark, New Jersey before landing a job as a designer for Condé Nast publications, Kruger considers how her design experience lent a fluency and directness to the development of her text-driven work. Produced by Ian Forster. Edited by Anna Gustavi. Camera by John Marton & Anne Misselwitz.

The Mile-Long Opera

Performing Choirs: Huaxia Choir, MLO Company Singers.

Ann Hamilton: the event of a thread

Filmed in 2012 at Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory, artist Ann Hamilton discusses her installation. Hamilton's artwork often deals with the connection between text and textiles. During the run time of her installation she was able to witness the various ways visitors chose to engage with the different though interconnected elements of the artwork. Produced by Ian Forster.

Frieze NY 2019

SWAY

150 white spheres mounted to swaying poles are reflected to form an infinite parabolic enclosure. In direct response to human movement and touch, each gently lit sphere reveals a change in hue and intensity.

Daniel Arsham "3018"

Video of the exhibition "3018" by Daniel Arsham at Perrotin New York September 8 - October 21, 2018 video by Guillaume Ziccarelli .

PIRATE LOVE

Shot in Queens, NY in Summer 2018 with Catharine Candelario & David Rose.