VOID_COLLECTION

Collection of sculptural, quilted, and new media work.

Harnessing materiality, chromatics, and technology, the exhibition metamorphoses reimagined television test patterns into conduits of collective retrospection and Indigenous prophecy. Each creation, a mosaic of temporal and spatial layers, folding material, time and space into a multidimensional tableau. Through this dynamic striation, it reframes perceptions, urging audiences to ponder the intricacies of history and envision alternative futures. Through these interventions, X crafts a counter-narrative to the geological record, serving as an ultra-historical affirmation of the enduring presence of Indigenous making, while painting the absence.

Gerald Peters Contemporary. Santa Fe, NM. 2024

Available for acquisition.

Stereoscopic Billboard, 2021. For Freedoms. Chicago, IL.

270 degree Extended reality installation composed of original sound compositions, dimensional renderings, and augmented digital artifacts.

Commissioned by Autry Museum for Pacific Standard Time (PSTLA). Currently on view.

Glitch in Perpetual Time. welcomes visitors into a dreamlike space between the real and the virtual, inviting them to dance on what the artist refers to as the "precipice of humanity as the world continues to spin and regenerate."

Overseen by the artist's alter ego, Shapeshifter, as he DJ's original Indigenous tracks, Glitch in Perpetual Time functions as an interstitial dance party, where audiences can immerse themselves in a futuristic environment defined by light, space, movement, and sound.

Autry Museum Permanent Collection. 2024.

Traditional hut made of invasive non-indigenous plant species harvested from Chicago city streets, earth from sovereign tribal lands, projection mapping, spherical video.

Commissioned by the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial

Installation along the Mississippi River banks, across the water from Cahokia Mounds.

Spoken word. Mechanical light projection. AR Billboard. St. Louis, MO.

Commissioned by 2023 Counterpublic Biennial. Curated by Risa Puleo.

Chromatic steel sculpture series.

Santa Fe, NM. 2024

Multi-sensory immersive experience set in an infinitely shifting futurescape. Through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Indigenous futurist, X, has generated an experiential work that stimulates our perpetual concepts of memory and futurity. The sounds, visuals, and scents are all algorithmically generated, presenting a hyper-real environment that feels familiar, but never actually exists.

Machine Learning, 360 Video Projection, AI Generated Sound, Time-Released Scent

WNDR Museum, Chicago, IL. 2021.

TRANSMISSIONS. 2019. Heaven Gallery. Chicago, IL.

Dimensional projections.

2020. Museum of Contemporary Native Art. Santa Fe, NM.

Dimensional projection.

GHOST TOUCH, 2020.

Custom arcade cabinet with touch-less, gesture-controlled video game.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Written and rendered by X on April 1, 2020 for the Quarantine Times.

The beautiful evaporating mundane, a sweet fleeting. Through atmospheres of interfacial spaced normals, we exchanged one for zero, everything for none. Rhythms interrupted by the silent flood.

She wants to run again and not care, but reality is latent as of late. Everything tangible has been augmented. I went to change the remote batteries, and the buttons were missing.

Internal inversions now glowing, burning in darkness. Inhaling desperate truth through cracked foundations, for mother's respite. The phantoms cast shadows. Looking back through shattered reflections, they can see us… reaching for each other, never reached. Pixels turn to dust.

I see you seeing me. I want to hold your hand, trust me, but neither of us would feel it. Neither of us would know.

Dematerialized embrace of self-constructed constraints, Humanity displaced as we lose our sense of place, Faces change, Emotions rearrange, Scripted replacement in a space without space.

Light and Sound, 2018. Installed at Ars Electronica Festival 2018. Linz, Austria.

https://ars.electronica.art/error/en/the-return/

Effigy Mound made of Earth, Indigenous Grass. Schiller Woods, Schiller Park, Illinois. Forest Preserves of Cook County.

Commissioned by the Chicago Public Art Group and The American Indian Center of Chicago. 2019.

Shipping Crate, Hologram, 2019.

Landing for a moment onto a fixed point on a rotating planet in orbit around a dying star, MODULE augments our shared landscape with embedded truths. The conditions of our world accelerate towards post-humanity, and our longevity is uncertain, but digital artifacts have begun to populate the land, giving us access to ancestral knowledge and a path towards futurity. 

Inverting the regional rural American architectural vernacular typology of the hunting blind, MODULE utilizes pragmatic craft as a catalyst for discourse.

Commissioned by Center for Craft for “Futurecraft 2099.”

Asheville, North Carolina.

The ghosts we can't catch with our naked eye.