Performance, Sculpture
Link to Work Sample
Artist Statement
“amplify guitar. cover in plaster. wait for hardening. clean the instrument.”
Plaster Body is a composition which focuses and celebrates the queer, transitioning body. As white plaster is applied with blue gloves, the pink bodied electric guitar defiantly squeaks sound which is manipulated by my collaborator, Gabi Vanek, an experimental bassoonist, and director of Ox Cart, a new music label. As with some of my other work, the intentional use of audio feedback is used for its poetic qualities, which are apt for expressing queer experience such as gender dysphoria and violence. This video was taken during my MFA show, “Taxonomy”, at the University of Iowa’s Eve Drewlowe gallery. Collaborator Gabi Vanek and I are members of the new music quartet, Justin K Comer and the Unblessed Rest of Us, who released a tape in December 2021. The quartet features Gabi Vanek (Electronics), Will Yager (Bass), Justin K. Comer (Guitar, Radio, and Zoom G2.1u), and myself (Drums). Video recording of our live performance can be found here.
This piece was performed again at the Lansing Art Gallery in 2024 as part of the LGBTQ Artist In Michigan group exhibition which can be watched here.
An artifact from this performance was displayed as a sculpture during my 2026 solo exhibition at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery, “Statements for Slow Screens.”