Info, Index

Old Land

Old Land (2022)
Single-Channel Video Installation
5’30”

This video installagion was shot in artic ocean while I was d

This performance was shot in private wildlife reserves in the six states that allow private ownership of large predators. I trained to handle the wildlife in order to embed myself in the ready-made sites, a complex of entertainment and conservation economies.

Today in the United States, in an era of ravaged ecology and increasingly de-regulated capitalism; there is an onus on volunteers to pick up environmental responsibility that at one point was upheld by communities or civic organizations. Free market environmentalists, assume a self-prescribed role of both individualist, and rouge animal guardian. Private wildcat reserves create an ecological diversity of fauna never co-existent under one biome. Here, tigers and lions roam a mowed landscape of the American South. Moreover, such preserved wilderness creates a frame around a private property, around which all other wildlife can be desecrated. (un)common intimacy is named after the both the loss of a wild commons and the unusual intimacy gained through free market environmentalism and the ownership of wild animals.