Blaffer Museum
Window on Houston:
Dennis Harper
2011
Fluorescent paper, foam board,
felt,
blacklights.
Dennis Harper and Friends
Present iPageant
2011
Sculpture installation, performance,
interactive activities, closed-circuit
television broadcast.
A fun filled event involving the participation of
many members of the Houston art community, including
a performance piece by Nancy Douthey, red carpet interviews by
Tina McPhearson and Catherine Anspon, and two rounds of the classic What's My Line game show featuring members of the local art community cast as the host, panelists, and mystery guests.
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The Japanese didn't think
much of me at first, and they
never liked my films
2011
Video, foam board, paper, wood
Dimensions variable
An aging Japanese filmmaker recounts the allegorical plots to his most famous screenplays.
The One Certainty
2011
Video, monitor, foam board,
paper, wood
Dimensions variable
The sonnet describes a relationship based on a polite fiction.
(Sonnet 138, Shakespeare)
The song is at once the lament of an isolated youth, and that of an aging man isolated from his youth. (Creep, Radiohead)
Ritual Prototypes
for the Afterlife
2009
Video, monitor, various materials
46 x 52 x 15 ft.
Ancient Egyptian ritual preparations for the afterlife inform a contemporary tomb room filled with monumental archetypal artifacts of American popular culture.
Tutankhamun is interviewed.
The Libido Wears a
Blue Tuxedo
2009
Video, projector,
various materials
38 x 17 x 10 ft.
Courting rituals and the trappings of romance reflect the competence with which a society controls its raw sexual urges. Valentine’s Day is the annual audit of the program.
This installation is an allegorical first date in which cultural tropes and clichés have subsumed honest human sentiment. Here, love is an apparition fluxing between pretty and grotesque, innocent and obscene, silly and creepy.
Rites of Passage
2004
Tyvek, MDF, Fome-cor,
PVC, wire
39 x 19 x 10 ft.
Fire God
2004
Cardboard boxes, paper,
Fome-cor
16 x 9.5 x 4.5 ft.