The Work
In the works
Films
- Portland Meadows
- SF HITCH
- Charismatic Megafauna
- Mighty Tacoma
- FULL ON LOG JAM
- Woodswoman
- Babyman
- Little White Horse
- Portrait #3: House of Sound
- Red Stallions Revenge
- Portrait #2: Trojan
- Lure
- Portrait #1: Cascadia Terminal
- Britton, South Dakota
- 9 is a secret
- Westward Ho
- Richart
- Satan's Holiday
- The Ugly Movie
- Yawn
- The Yodeling Lesson
- Olympia
- Mine
- Food is a Weapon
- Crowdog
- Warning
- U.C.A. Box
- Worse
- Random Union
- Rube Ranch
- Toxic Shock
- Fatal Plus
Installations
- Medusa Smack
- flat as a board (knot)
- Longhorn
- The Dirt Bird
- Zoobomb Pyle
- The House of Sound
- Nice Package
- Lovejoy Lost
- Hope and Prey
- Patriot Act
- Rising Up
- Hunting Requires Optimism
- Drivers Lounge
- Rubberneck
- Clearcut
- The Yodeling Lesson Installation
- A Nice Ass
- Below
- Ring
Photography
Books
Curation
- A Natural Selection
- Hunker Down To Rise Above
- Stumptown Sap
- Follow Me To Certain Death
- The Hunt
- DeComposer
- Beamsplitters
Tours
Stencils
Drivers Lounge
video installation
co-produced with Bill Daniel
Drivers Lounge was initially inspired by a nasty truck stop bathroom graffiti* that we kept encountering, and by our shared fascination with trucker culture. Over the years we both have spent a lot of time in truck stops, and we both definitely have a thing for the road. On one of our film tours we decided to make an installation based on the bizarre domesticity, hyper nic-nacness, and recent video saturation of the truck stop environment. The graffiti we found contained a CB handle which gave us an opportunity to interact with drivers on the radio. We installed a C.B. radio in our van and these conversations were recorded and edited by Bill Daniel, and played back on telephones stationed at the lounge's tables. Visuals consisted of footage that Vanessa shot at various truck stops while we were touring, archival truck related films from Dennis Nyback, and a single channel from Animal Charm, who we invited to participate in the piece, thinking that their work would fit well in the lounge that we were creating. There also were four slides of urinals in the bathroom part of our truck stop.
1 room audio (recorded and edited by Bill Daniel - a mix of C.B. chatter and music)
4 audio channels in telephones (C.B. chatter recorded and edited by Bill Daniel)
3 silent video channels looped (shot by Vanessa Renwick)
1 silent video channel (from the archives of Dennis Nyback)
1 sound video channel looped (from the archives of Dennis Nyback)
1 sound video channel looped (from Animal Charm)
4 slides projected (urinals photographed by Bill Daniel at truck stops)
*NORTH CAROLINA CAMEL JOCKEY is a low-down dirty rotten stupid fat queer shit stinkin' pissy-pants orange truck driving, no backing, mildewed shit dick fly swarming flea infested HIV positive deep throatin frilly pink dressy blue jean with the zipper in the back wearing dick suckin' nut huggin butt in the air rollover queen of the cone headed turd burglein' pecker puffin peter eatin pistol grip eared trout mouthed shit-4-brains cock suckin' cum junkey dum-assed pointy-eared card carrying pickle park club member