Graft [2011]
Video vignette of a surgical procedure gone haywire: grafting the human heart to the brain analogous to the religious goal of unifying the spirit and the mind through technology.  The artificial metallic of medieval-like surgical tools is used to represent the philosophical implications of transhumanism. Turquoise, a color once worn in antiquity to protect against unnatural death, is now a universal color worn in the medical field. Staged on a black armband and morphed with Malevich’s square celebrating human autonomy and creativity, an oscillating syntax is generated: one of hope and one of death. The red blood shooting up from the bed of the surgery uses the elevated table as an altar for sacrifice, appropriating tropes from splatter films and the body-horror genre.