Recent Work
greatest hits
video, 2020
What happens to our technologies when we no longer need them? What end will they meet?
Our objects have economic, material and political histories before and after our brief relationship with them - those histories often feel deeply invisible by design, which reinforces their disposable nature.
This project is a meditation on how humans invest emotion, narrative, and even poetic energy into the life arc of our technological devices. It’s also a meditation on how things end - carefully, consciously, organically, mindlessly, violently.
Notes on Facts
video / talk
What is the basic unit of the classical documentary project - what is the atom in that molecule? If it is the Fact, the Real, might we yet understand them better? Documentary, as a project of Knowing, preoccupies itself with the Real, with Fact - whether structurally, metaphorically, figuratively, or quite literally. Today, when the very notion of Fact has become amorphous, what can be built out of it? What forms - aesthetic, communicative, etc - continue to emerge to redefine our relationship to the factual?
The excerpt embedded here was also presented as part of a talk at Poetics and Politics Symposium, UC Santa Cruz, 2015.
echo / archive
video / dance / multimedia performance, 2016-2018, collaboration with Elena Demyanenko
commissioned by EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY), premiered 2018
echo/archive is a dialogue between female dance/movement artists of different aesthetic genealogies – women who bookend a generation of dance history. This three-part multimedia work decodes how various dance legacies coexist in the bodily tissue and cellular memory.
original idea Elena Demyanenko and Erika Mijlin
created with/performed by Eva Karczag, Jodi Melnick, Dana Reitz and Elena Demyanenko
video design Ray Sun
lighting design Thomas Dunn
sound design Jon Kinzel
costume design Kaye Voyce
project/video assistants Jordan Macintosh-Hougham and George MacLeod