Artist Statement / About Current Projects:

Since 2002 I have been researching the science and discourse informing explorations of outer space. I see my subject matter through a feminist lens. The increasing militarization of space, the neo-colonial quest for extra-planetary resources, and the metaphors that simultaneously code the feminine and outer space as sublime make outer space a location in culture where gender, fiction, and politics are intertwined and codetermined. It interests me as a unique location to represent "crisis," build critical models and stage elements of our subconscious fantasies through phenomenological events and participatory installations.

Space is a potentially useful place from which to monitor looming environmental disasters and attempt to address global inequities in wealth, resources, and information. It is also a discursive staging ground where racial anxieties and existential crisis have long been pre-figured. Our dependence on optical technologies to reach beyond our planet brings another important issue to light - space is already organized as a gendered object, one that is a reflection of our own struggles and questions with what it is to look at and to be seen. This is a realm where we are still dependent on Cartesian models, where feminist and post-structuralist theories have aimed but as yet failed to reach.

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