Opacity/Capture

Facial Weaponization Suite (2012-14) protests against biometric facial recognition–and the inequalities these technologies propagate–by making “collective masks” in workshops that are modeled from the aggregated facial data of participants, resulting in amorphous masks that cannot be detected as human faces by biometric facial recognition technologies.

Face Cages (2014-16) is a dramatization of the abstract violence of the biometric diagram. In this installation and performance work, computational biometric diagrams of the faces of four queer artists are fabricated as three-dimensional metal objects then worn in endurance performances for video.

SANCTUM (2018) is a mystical environment that perverts sex dungeons with the apparatuses and procedures of airport body scans, biometric analysis, and predictive policing.