This series was presented in the show Pedestals in The Garden at Clamp Light Gallery in San Antonio TX, and more recently in the show Pataphysics 4 Institutions in Georgetown College KY.
In this series, my alter-ego “Prof Pata”, takes baths and discuss issues related to isolation. This series, started during the pandemic lockdown, intended to explore a more comforting side of Pataphysics while keeping its delicious absurdism.
Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 5, Episode 6.
Midwest Stories is a website completed for The Wrong Biennale. It was organized by the collective Satellite TV that I run with artist Thomas Osorio. The website explores the mythos of the Midwest as a fictitious place or a place defined by what it is not.
Sketch created with generative algorithms as research for a film project.
Another sample from an ongoing series started in 2021 exploring neoclassicism and its absurdist qualities. This image was included in the show Pataphysics 4 Institutions at Georgetown College.
This image was created for the publication An Atlas and was presented at Co-Prosperity in Chicago in 2022.
This image is from a series of tangled compositions of what French people call colloquially “l’Art Pompier” (Firefighter Art) which usually describes a certain kind of neoclassical academism full of damsels in distress and courageous and muscular greek apollos wearing gilded armors.
Image from a series of absurdist architecture created using generative algorithms.
Image from a series of absurdist sculptures created using generative algorithms.
Image from a series of absurdist sculptures created using 3D modeling tools.
This pieces is part of an ongoing series started in 2019.
Play this game and you will know if you are good at competition of if you are bad at competition!
Pataphysics essay part of a large publication series called Eggresswasm, published by art historian Chris Reeves. The essay was titled "The question of the question or when the answer is the question". The essay was also presented in 2021 at the SECAC conference.
List of things I didn't make during my residency in Finland (2017)
Professor Pata was invited to present at a conference called Eggresswasm, organized by art historian Chris Reeves at Chase Public. The topic of the conference was Escapism. (2016)
A visual representation of my thought process during my residency in Finland. (2017)
I participated in an event in which I traded pataphysics recommendations with other art practices. After each trade, each artist signed a contract to finalize the exchange. In exchange for a pataphysics tip I received a dance and a song. (2015)
An imaginary game invented during my residenc in Finland. (2017)
