A Transdisciplinary Approach
across
Film - Performance - Activism
in service of
Community - Communication - Expression
Quick Links:
engagement: Make Space
Make Space is a program for and with people living with dementia that is designed to stimulate creativity and imagination. Make Space is a framework that uses dance, movement and narrative building to develop and enhance modes of expression and communication. LEARN
film: Sum Of My Parts
Sum of My Parts documents the ways that dementia has shifted the terrain of my relationship with my mother. Over the course of about a year, I recorded my conversations with my mother. I feel that in these recordings is a powerful statement about the experience of dementia. WATCH
essay: Losing More, Again
The quarantine has pushed people living with dementia even deeper into devastating isolation. As the disease of dementia pulls people cognitively away from us, our culture accelerates the trend by disassociating people out of our shared space, away from family, friends and community, and into marginalized institutional settings. READ
interview: Life is a Sacred Journey
In an interview on the podcast Life is a Sacred Journey with Micheal Pope, we discuss “person-centered” dementia care, the importance of creative expression for people living with dementia, and building an advocacy movement that is representative of the experience of people living with dementia. WATCH
film: Control
Control is a documentary portrait of mass incarceration as it reverberates through our homes and communities. It is the story of a family whose life is relentlessly punctuated by an intrusive, destructive, counter-intuitive penal system. WATCH
film: The Island is Ridiculous
An artificial island, a solid waste landfill, Rikers is the world's largest penal colony. Incarcerating over 130,000 NY'ers a year, Rikers is a key component to the NYPD's community policing strategy. Arrest a lot of young people, build long rap sheets, and keep people moving through the system with "short" jail stays. WATCH
Personal Statement:
My work explores the role culture production can play in building community and organizing towards social change.
By drawing a big circle around a wide variety of artistic and activist practices, I seek to create space for a production model that is pre-built to engage with the sets of social relations, communication dynamics, and political contexts that are the foundations of our communities.
My hope is to build a practice that is collaborative in nature, experimental in spirit, and that aggressively confronts systems of marginalization and dehumanization.
-Chris