Visit Oscilloscope Laboratories for trailer, screenings, and to stream online. As a visual artist and writer, I use my work to create new perspectives to long-established structures of power in society.
Gaining access to power systems takes research, trust, and a series of unorthodox requests, requiring constant negotiation. From the inside, I engage these systems in personal dialogue.
For more than twenty years, this corporation has made his work largely inaccessible to the public. I believe that it is crucial to discuss how artistic legacy is constructed, shaped, and manipulated. Does allowing the public to engage with an artwork in various ways and from multiple perspectives threaten its integrity, or make it more integral to society over time?
With this film, I wanted to capture the overwhelming beauty of his work while simultaneously questioning the legal challenges one faces to do so. The film is in itself a proposal: A way to elicit dialogue about access to legacy and its proprietary nature, and not simply if the proposal will be accepted. I wanted to present legacy as something potentially alive, and full of possibility.
Transforming ashes into a diamond is an expression of possibility. My work has long provoked questions about access to power and power relations, in a similar realm as the work of Adrian Piper, Tanya Bruguera, Trevor Paglen and The Yes Men.
