Salome Dances for Peace is an ongoing collaboration with the Ruysdael Quartet. Terry Riley’s string quartet lasts two hours and tells the story of Salome being awoken by the Great Spirit one thousand years after her death to create world peace. The video accompaniment, performed live, asks the question of how Salome would accomplish such an endeavor.
First performed in Dieren, The Netherlands as a part of the 2018 Zoom! festival, Salome Dances for Peace was performed next at the 2020 String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam.
Excerpt from Salome Dances For Peace composed by Terry Riley and performed by the Ruysdael Quartet at the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, January 2020.
Excerpt from Salome Dances For Peace composed by Terry Riley and performed by the Ruysdael Quartet at the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, January 2020.
Hindsight: stories and loops was a solo exhibition of video works created between 2015 and 2018 hosted at the Dupont Underground in Washington, DC.
Still from all that we see or seem
Still from How to save your life (option 4)
Still from Tower
Still from Hontanas
Still from Los Huesos
This second version of Miraculous Mandarin was performed live with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in 2017 telling one version of the story of Bela Bartok’s pantomime.
Photographs of mom and dad, the basement and all that represents, 1950s movie Boys Beware, the night stag and the swan, how to make rosewater.
Shown in solo exhibition and as part of Hindsight.
Video projections for the production, by Doug Fitch, which included three parts—Matthew Aucoin’s cantata Orphic Moments, conducted by the composer-librettist; Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice; and an “Orphic feast,” by chef Patrick Connolly. Performed at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY in 2016.
Trigger Finger is a video loop created for United in Passion and Pride at the 39th Street Gallery, a group show in response to the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016.
Match Girl was a collaboration with conductor Jim Ross and the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra telling a holiday tale woven from Clara of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and the little match girl from David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.
Footage of the artist (highly processed), looking back to an afternoon, realizing we had been in that very same place many years ago.
Shown in solo exhibition and as part of Hindsight.
Performed at the 2015 Intersections Festival in Washington, DC, this collaboration with the Capital City Symphony integrated live video into the concert experience.
Performed as part of the Bard College Summer Music Festival in 2013, this collaboration with the American Symphony Orchestra included semi-staged performances of Stravinsky’s oratorios Oedipus Rex and Persephone.
Highway driving in the rain, how to make rosewater over open flame, a walk in the woods, my hand. It was just one kilometer away.
Shown in group exhibition and as part of Hindsight.
Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations was first performed in 2013 with tenor Gran Wilson, director Doug Fitch, and the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra.
The first version of Miraculous Mandarin was performed live with the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra in 2012.
