My Tidewrack installation was shown at SomoS Art House in Berlin in a show called “Futureless” curated by Oliver Dougherty in Fall of 2020.

Tidewrack refers to the evolving space on the shoreline where the mixture of seaweed and synthetic materials are deposited by a receding tideline. This creative tangle may survive—churned and changed—or be decimated and swept out to sea. The tidewrack is temporary, collaborative and evolving.

The video depicts queer artists and activists from my community frolicking with wigs and struggling to stay upright in the tide on Riis Beach. It is projected through a tank containing saltwater, causing the light to refract and rainbow and the image to split into three color channels. The sound is made from gritty recordings captured of waves underneath the sand and a ship’s distress signal-meant to forewarn of something unknown that is to come.

Elements are made from the wigs shown in the video. The sculptural element is made from hair left in the tide to attract detritus at Riis Beach. It picked up bits of shell, fish bones and a bracelet. The monoprints are printed from the synthetic hair and wig caps. The viewers at first mistake them for sea creatures but on closer inspection realize they are still looking at wig detritus.