Waiting (Allegories of Capital), 2008

A narrative installation that considers the Modern Olympiad and its sequence of 30 host cities as historical and ideological constructions of a globalized culture industry.

CENTER OF ROOM: five 7-ft. rings in painted, corrugated cardboard.













RIGHT WALL: 30 color prints chronicle the games by presenting each host city's accelerating use of visual merchandising, corporate branding, and commercial design.












LEFT WALL: single black & white print based on Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melencolia 1 visualizes a counterpoint.













Installed at the Soap Factory, MN and at the Third Guangzhou Triennial, China.