Protest Technology
Screenprints on Cardboard, Wood panels, Styrene Sheets,
Found Barrier, Bungee Cords
This body of work consists of screenprints, sculptural installation and a video work thinking about the space of protest as a sociopolitical technology. Since President Trump’s reelection, crackdowns on student activists in the United States have intensified.
I walk through Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods, photographing anti fascist political posters and flags in windows across the city. In such a time, these posters for me act like quiet ruptures that protest through their persistent presence. The photographs were each screen-printed on cardboard and turned into precarious protesting bodies.
Protest Technology
2-channel video, sound/color
In the summer of 2025, at a heightened point in Trump's fascist policies, Carnegie Mellon University invited Trump to campus, along with several top executives from major oil and tech corporations, for an AI summit spotlighting Pennsylvania's role in the artificial intelligence and energy sectors. The visit drew significant pushback, and student protests unfolded across campus simultaneously with the summit. This simultaneity interested me, so I recorded footage from both events. The resulting video work centers on Pennsylvania's Republican senator, Dave McCormick, delivering a speech — but dubs his audio with that of a student protestor, producing a subversive moment of protest embedded within his own image.