High-Definition Video, LCD Television with Media Player, Perspex. 480x330mm each.

Two televisions flash the word 'NOW' at the current birthrate (four births per second) and deathrate (two deaths per second).

Video documentation, Vinyl decal, certificate, frame.
Created for 'We Need You, You Need Us', curated by Georgie Meagher. Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.

An invoice printed on certificate paper for the $250 artist was issued and returned in cash. The cash was then deposited into a hole made in the gallery walls in secret. This hole was patched and painted entombing the cash forever.

Untitled (Microphone Feedback Portraits - Adam & Emma)

C-Type Print. 900x600mm

Instrument of Darkness #1 (Microphone Feedback)

Plywood, timber, microphone, guitar amplifier, motion sensor. Dimensions Variable.

Instruments of Darkness were hand made objects used by the Christian traditions in the Middle Ages during Easter to create unbearable sounds that were to remind the faithful of the horrors of hell & death. In recent research, microphone feedback features highly in sounds we consider 'horrible'. These small plywood boxes enclose a microphone and guitar amplifier coupled with a motion sensor that trigger when a user stands in front of it. The photographs document two participants interaction with these boxes.

Video Documentation, plastic bowl, timber

Participants were asked to meet at an allotted time at a makeshift studio. No other information was given. Upon the participants arrival, their valuables were stored and they were asked to follow me into a room which contained a ladder, a bowl of water, and a large piece of timber. After climbing the ladder it was requested that the participant was to pass the bowl of water. Placing the open end of the bowl against the roof to create a seal, they were then asked to hold the stick underneath the bowl of water and apply pressure to keep the bowl in place. Climbing down the ladder the participant was left to hold this difficult position underneath the bowl.

C-type Print from 35mm Negative. 152.4 x 101.6cm

A camera set to take multiple exposures was thrown from a long rocky cliff, recording its own decent and demise. This photograph is the last exposure on the roll before the camera stopped functioning.

Red cotton socks, black thread. 70 x 70cm

A section of sock was removed and replaced with a patch from another sock, repeatedly, until none of the original sock remained.

LED programmable scrolling sign, 101 × 15.8cm

'If I don't know I don't know
I think I know.
If I don't know I know
I think I don't know.'

- Knots, RD Laing.

Stones, Rope, Timber, Clipboards, Paper, Survey from Found Book. Dimensions Variable.

Participants complete a survey from a self-help book by placing stones in the 'Yes' or 'No' pile to indicate their answer.

50 Page custom designed notepad, offset printed. 105 × 148mm each. Signed edition of 250.

Custom designed 'To-Do' notepad given out free during the exhibition 'In Action, Inaction' at MOP Projects Sydney and Kings ARI Melbourne.

Computer, HD video and custom made software. Infinte loop.

Using motion detection, a video of the artist biting his fingernails turns off when a viewer walks into the room, thus making the video un-watchable. Once the viewer leaves the rooms the video playback resumes.

Found books, timber. Dimentions Variable

A range of self-help books, dealing with the topic of anxiety are pulped with the use of a mortar and pestle. The covers are removed and the books contents are turned into cubes through the process.

Lambda Print from C-41 negatives. 107.6 x 107.6cmm

In this series participants in the photographs were asked to be apart of an art project that involved taking a photographic portrait of the subject, no other information was given. After the participant agreed it was arranged for them to meet the artist at his studio at an allotted time to take the photo. Once the participant was in position and lighting etc was set, the artist pulled a rubber band out of his pocket and pointed it at the participant and commenced shooting the photo continuously, in silence, until the roll was finished.

High Definition Video, 7:15

Three version of the artist attempt to complete personal physical impossibilities; attempting to lick ones elbow, attempting to hold breath for as long as possible, and attempting to touch his tongue with his nose.

Plywood, Switch, Flood Lights. 185 x 75 x 75cm

A simple plywood box with two doors in its front, sits on a wooden stand. The doors invite the viewer to open them. Upon opening the box two, one hundred watt flood lights mounted in the back panel turn on, forcing the viewer to close the doors out of surprise and discomfort.

DVD Video, 16:31

A pre-packaged block of clay is pushed in a straight line, back and forth, across a small room until it transforms into a round ball.

Plywood, Timber, Clay. 2.4m x 2.3m x 0.6m

Each stair on this staircase features a different combination of rise and run dimensions that fall under the ‘golden rule’ for stair making. This pieces references ideas within the Greek Myth of Sisyphus and human physiology. The clay ball from the video work To Roll is positioned on the highest run of the staircase.

DVD Video, 7:41

Three versions of the artist attempt to fight, fly and get dizzy, all in a fur coat. The attempts to fight, fly and get dizzy references research into the effects of anxiety.

Stills from video documentation. DVD Video, varying lengths.

The Horror Vacui activity involved six people. The six participants were not told what their contribution would entail, but simply that they were part of an “art project”. The subjects arrived individually. They were greeted and asked to follow me to an empty white room, the only object inside being a stool. Their possessions were stored safely outside of the room. They were then asked to wait in the room while I went out to ‘grab something I’d forgotten’, an act of deception. The door was closed, locking the subject in. The subject was to sit and wait for my return. A camera was concealed in the space to document their time waiting in the room. After approximately 20 minutes, the door was opened and the subject was let out. The subject was informed that their waiting was their contribution to the project.

Ink on pape, 594 x 420 mm. Video Documentation 2:40

Twelve subjects were asked to sit at a table and place only their index fingers atop the paper surface. Unknowingly a glass filled with black ink was place atop the fingers and their behaviour was observed. A relentless denial of outcome - a pattern of thought common amongst all participants - forced a process of active escape from the situation. The participant becomes biddable, elementary power turn torture. Pacified and contained, the subject becomes unencumbered through dismissing concern for the glass, the paper, the ink, and their exterior.