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The Baltimore Sweep Action Parade is a community street intervention in Baltimore City, in which the participants swept the litter from the streets and sidewalks in a parade fashion, covering four miles in total distance. The four parades routes were established each a mile in length, each ending in the center of the city in the historic Mt. Vernon Place. Each parade consisted of about 20 people armed with brooms, musicians, drummers and a local marching band, and a troop of stilt walkers led and designed by MICA alumni, Valeska Populoh. The collected waste was then installed into a sculpture, The Monument for Collective Effort, which was erected in the southern park at the foot of the Washington Monument. It could be described as a broom fasces, a forms of spears tied in a bundle around a single axe most commonly used in Rome to imply strength in numbers, an architectural reference from the many fasces symbols surrounding the park. Nearly one hundred people participated, many of which were swept into the parade as they watched from the sidewalk. A documentary of the parade was produced and screened in April at the park and there is an edition of photos, screen prints and objects. The event was organized for the exhibition Beyond the Compass, Beyond the Square in partnership with the Walter’s Art Museum exhibition Maps: Finding Our Place in the World.

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With the intention to raise awareness of the treatment of Nature paralleled the treatment of detained prisoners of war or law, I performed as an fictional Detainment Officer for the fictional Invasive Species Containment Agency. During the course of a month I became ISCA Officer Taube and detained nine young specimens of the Tree Heaven, ailanthus altissima, aka the Ghetto Palm, a highly noxious and contested plant. At the beginning of each week I would ascertain the suspects from various locations around Baltimore and hold them under suspicion. I performed intelligence test, monitored their health and interrogated them for information about the “Ghetto Palm invasion.” The detention center would become a stage for my character to perform his duties, file paper work, and to give tours to visitors. Each day the detainees would be transported outdoors and chained to a public lawn to receive three hours of sunlight and water. The work developed into a public spectacle with consequences and benefits when an opposition group began to subvert the installation, liberating the plants, assaulting my character in public, leaving notes and ailanthus seeds in the space. In response to the terrorist threat Officer Taube increased security, installing a locked gate, and took away the plants sunlight and watering privileges. Detainees was discontinued on October 9th 2008.
More information can be found at www.detainees.wordpress.com

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An installation of non-functional brooms made in the Spring of 2008.

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The performer approached the endless stoop and dislodges the carrots that prevent it from rocking. Attached to his head is a stick with a carrot dangling in front of his face. He steps on to the stair and tries to climb to the top. However the stairs rock downwards and thud, setting of a seismograph. He has to quickly turn around and climb up to the top, which becomes the bottom. He does this until he loses his motivation.

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Walls, is exploration into the concept of walls, barriers, distances, the unknown, and the romantics. I fell in love with the wall, with the possibilities of the other side. I romanticized the distance of our relationship. I performed for the wall, tried to seduce and charm the wall. I became violent towards the wall.

Climbing for Eros, Wall (arrow, wedge brick, felt, charcoal) Spring 2007
Balancing on Eros, Wall (arrow, spirit level, bandage, wedges, charcoal powder) Spring 2007
Falling, not Healing (block of ice, salt, broken arrow, copper basin, gauze, and potted aloe vera) Spring 2007
Building from Walls (salt paste, trowel, bricks, aloe plant) Spring 2007
The Absurdity of the wall and Slapstick as a device to overcome it, (Action, man falls/wall falls) Spring 2007
Gag for Growing (Ladder, aloe, aloe-spade, broom, 3 extra pots) Fall 2007
Walking Babel, the endless stoop (concrete, bronze, carrot) Fall 2007

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Proposed and accepted Artscape 2009 plop sculpture.

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Rammed Earth and ladder on a shipping pallet.