© 2007 alien. All rights reserved.
Public art. Fictitious design solution to the housing needs of urban migrant workers, who find it increasingly difficult to rent decent accommodation. By disguising the dwelling as a tree it doubles as street beautification. Medium: Wood, Plywood, Weathertyte billboard vinyl … Continue reading
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Drawings, models and real life iterations, 2012 – 2019. The podium is imagined as a deployable speakers’ corner that is both functional and symbolic. Inspired by the effective coalition of citizens and immigrants/non-citizens who fought successfully to block the building … Continue reading
© 2016 alien. All rights reserved.
Hobart and Gary are adjoining Indiana communities that are both being targeted by GEO Inc., one of the biggest prison companies in the world, as a site for a new 800 bed for-profit detention center for the Midwest. For this … Continue reading
© 2014 alien. All rights reserved.
3-day performance in Pedro Albizu Campos Plaza, Lower East Side, New York, in which I asked passers-by to help teach me Spanish. Volunteer teachers received Certificates of Appreciation from the student. Scroll down for video excerpt. Thank You! to Sandy … Continue reading
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2014 video, 3:07 Voice: Carl Hancock Rux Exploration of “The Wayland Rudd Collection,” an archive of images of black people in Russian and Soviet culture in the 20thC. Patterned after the iPhone game “Candy Crush”, a typical ‘matching’ game, the … Continue reading
© 2013 alien. All rights reserved.
The Souvenirs are part of a project commemorating the citizens and non-citizens who together successfully fought to block the building of a new for-profit detention center by Corrections Corporation of America in Crete IL, in 2012. After giving Souvenirs to … Continue reading
© 2012 alien. All rights reserved.
Series of 7 pigment photos, 25in x 35in each. 2012 The title refers to the unexpected transformation of the scornful term ‘nimby’ (not in my backyard,) seen in the recent events in Crete, IL, where local residents and immigrant activists … Continue reading
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Ongoing series. Ink on paper. 9″x12″ Drawings based on accounts of village meetings. (n)IMBY commemorates the citizens and non-citizens who successfully fought to block the building of a new private detention center by Corrections Corporation of America in Crete IL.
© 2010 alien. All rights reserved.
aka the ATTIC ACCESS HIDING UNIT Permanent installation. Wood, Plywood, Aluminum bar grating, wood, steel pipe, hoist. 5ft x 2ft x 5ft Permanent Interactive Site Specific installation for BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. This installation is a fictitious Hiding Unit … Continue reading
© 2009 alien. All rights reserved.
A Teach-Yourself Spanish Unit: Ancient Irrigation Practice in New Mexico As A Model of Social Cooperation.. By Jenny Polak, with the following remarkable Farmer – Teachers: Estevan Arellano Margaret Garcia Miguel Santistevan Wallace Yippa And with the support of Lea … Continue reading
© 2009 alien. All rights reserved.
Permanent installation at Griffiss International Sculpture Garden, Rome, NY. 10′ x 50′ x 14′ Cedar, stainless steel, galvanized steel, railroad ties, solar-powered runway approach lights, concrete, landscaping. An Air Force landing strip is visible from the deck. The structure’s lights … Continue reading
© 2007 alien. All rights reserved.
Interactive installation for the soap factory Minneapolis MN Plywood, wood, ropes, high strength vinyl, counterweight, audio of Barbara Kremer describing how she sheltered 24 people from the Immigration raids at the meat packing factory in Worthington MN in Dec. 2006, in … Continue reading
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Cardboard, wood, surveillance camera, monitor. 6’ x 5’ x 21’ Counter-surveillance tower. Packs flat in a box; the quick-build Tower is a 21ft high periscope kit, no crane required for installation. Nested triangular sections are intended to be raised to … Continue reading
© 2006 alien. All rights reserved.
Design for the Alien Within is a fictional company with a website offering a interactive 3-D digital apartment, showcasing furniture with built-in hiding places for people without immigration papers. NOTE: the interactive apartment section requires a Safari browser, and you … Continue reading
© 2006 alien. All rights reserved.
An ongoing series based on fire-escape signs, and sited like the real signs, using site-specific floor-plans of buildings. Various media. This public art project appears in any venues that ask to participate by inviting me to make an ICE Escape … Continue reading
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MDF, paint, digital illustrations on foam core. 5’ x 3’ x 6’ Fictional furniture series incorporating hiding places for people without immigration papers. Concept drawings of furniture for Design for the Alien Within show modular figures, towards an ergonomics of … Continue reading
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Excerpt of a 2004 video by Jenny Polak & Dread Scott exploring brutality against immigrants in US detention after Sept 11, 2001. Images released by the Dept. of justice are paired with a child’s voice repeating the racist, threatening epithets … Continue reading
© 2003 alien. All rights reserved.
Architectural hiding place designed for Exit Art Gallery. Interactive installation; plywood, steel, surveillance cameras, monitors, paper. Installation view; person inside structure. 2’ x 16’ x 13’ The installation is designed to match the architecture of the gallery. Visitors climb up … Continue reading
© 2002 alien. All rights reserved.
HardPlace is a web-based project created in collaboration with Lauren Gill, with the participation of immigrant detainees and their advocates from around the US. Views of 10 detention centers, based on drawings detainees made of their prisons/detention centers. Click on … Continue reading