Being a pataphysicist

I am a member of Le College De 'Pataphysique. Pataphysics is a creative practice that was invented by surrealist writer Alfred Jarry. He described it as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments".

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Three Stories About Isolation (2021)

This collection of three stories was created for the show Tidal Pull at the Weston Gallery.

Untitled Pataphysics for Landscape series (2021)

Prof Pata gets Nakeid (Series 2020-2022)

In this series, my alter-ego “Prof Pata”, takes baths and discuss issues related to isolation. This series, started during the pandemic lockdown, intended to explore a more comforting side of Pataphysics while keeping its delicious absurdism.

Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 5, Episode 6.

Waiting forever (2019)

Animation created for the Blue Tarp exhibition at Wave Pool Gallery.

Vexation For Binary Code (2022)

In this performance I interpret a score by artist Lauren Sudbrink. The piece was projected outside of Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago in July 2022.

Untitled Pataphysics for Landscapes (2021)

Pataphysics 4 Hair (2022)

Sketch created as research for a film project.

Change Strategies (2020)

Untitled Drippings (2018)

Pataphysics 4 Time

What is time for? That’s a good question. This video was presented as part of an interactive installation at The Dahrma Center in January 2019.

(2019)

Once upon a time there was a time (2020)

Pataphysics for Geometry (2022)

Mr Punchinello

A song for the joyfully nihilists. This video has been screened at the Bite Your Tong screening at Vox Populi and will be shown in May at Mantle Art Space in San Antonio Texas.

(2018)

Dear Prof Pata #2

Episode 2 of a series in which Professor Pata answers essential questions as well as other things. In this episode, art is the focus or our lecture.

Premiered at The Mini Micro Cinema at the Carnegie center in Covington, KY. (2016)

Pataphysics 4 Competition

Play this game and you will know if you are good at competition of if you are bad at competition!

Full link: https://www.playbuzz.com/item/3420ccdd-d8ca-443c-a039-e5f7325cedb8?fbclid=IwAR2FqysUU2DSrvHW7XYL-Se6nJaCi4xt_rcYqyz3vNN1ePrt_gV84sVxfaU

(2019)

Pataphysics Essay

Pataphysics essay part of a large publication series called Eggresswasm, published by art historian Chris Reeves. The essay was titled "The question of the question or when the answer is the question" (2016)

How Google Taught Me What Spangle meant

A video made in honor of my new American citizenship. (2017)

Pataphysics For Women #2

Part of a website project called Pataphysics For Women to be released in (2018).

Dream Documentary

A documentary about my dreams of pools. (2017)

The Relativism Of Relativism.

A lecture that was given to the first Xted Talk. (2017)

New Colossus

This video is an interpretation of one line from the poem "New Colossus" that was part of a performance at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, Oh. (2017)

List

List of things I didn't make during my residency in Finland (2017)

Not Another Pile Of Chair

Pataphysics tribute to the 2007-2009 trend of chair piling as an art form (potted plant tribute will be released around 2020) (2015)