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Videos
The Fables of Money-Driven FishTank Game
2023Money-Driven FishTank Game is a Roblox game built and designed by the artist where the player collects cash, runs through a maze of strip clubs to get to the avatar’s home space, and has to get past a gigantic shark that can kill you (over and over again). Although primarily for children, Roblox has a problem where strip and sex clubs keep appearing on the platform.
Added on: June 7, 2023
Opulence
2022(Password: ilovefish) This film explores what it means to experience the micro-interactions that occur when one is getting paid based on their ability to attract, keep, and become. Opulence deals with how stereotyping can become complicated when negotiating power and money, especially during the surreal realities of economic recession. How do we silence ourselves to get what we need from those that have more agency? Are these spaces that create microcosms of racism and identity politics mini-dystopias? In this film, there is an excess of everything, and there is no way to stop the progression. There is a specific and complicated use of language that exists not only around sex work spaces but also in corporate spaces, the protagonist is trying to understand the vernacular of both. The character finds ways to lean into the labor and consumerism that alienates her, and she navigates through the hellish labyrinth that is late capitalism's sexual commodifications in all its forms.
Added on: June 7, 2023
SWer-NPC-Fable
2022SWer-NPC-Fable is a 4-minute video piece where the artist films herself working at her “home” strip club and watches herself work while editing in her domestic space; a piano score punctuates each frame. The video investigates self-consumption, personhood, and humanization.
Added on: June 7, 2023
Push for Help Episode 1: The Worship of Kitty
2021The Worship of Kitty is the first episode animated in the Push for Help series. Each episode visually, somatically, and narratively investigates different components of labor, socio-political issues, the economy, and domesticity through the lens of the artist’s experiences with sex work and sex work discourse online. Throughout the series, the artist uncovers her wavering feelings about the occupation and renegotiates her relationship with it, mirroring the constant metamorphizing on the internet.
Added on: June 7, 2023
Rent Money
2021Rent Money is the second episode of the Push for Help series. This episode investigates ideas surrounding mutual aid, charity, and the relationship between sex work and domesticity.
Added on: June 7, 2023
Welcome Home
2022Welcome Home is a 16-second animation in a video series entitled Push for Help, a diaristic, episodic video series set in a money-driven fishtank simulator gentlemen's club, and it is the most recent episode.
Added on: June 7, 2023
Money-Driven FishTank Game(Play)
2023Money-Driven FishTank Game is a Roblox game built and designed by the artist where the player collects cash, runs through a maze of strip clubs to get to the avatar’s home space, and has to get past a gigantic shark that can kill you (over and over again). Although primarily for children, Roblox has a problem where strip and sex clubs keep appearing on the platform.
Added on: June 7, 2023
An Ode to the Exit Sign Game - (Video Game)
2024My newest game, An Ode to the Exit Sign, thematically thinks through both game theory– I often reference Elizaveta Schneyderman’s writing on the explicit nature of fatalities in games, media materialities, and their effects on corporeality– and the interpersonal vs. systemic issues sex workers face; the avatar walks through a long, damask and gold chandeliered hallway based on the one at the Ritz-Carlton (a client favorite) and a text-fable unfolds as the avatar keeps walking that reveals that the worker is done with trying to get her relationships to understand her work and marries her work instead, despite having to wear her wig that hurts her head the rest of her life. At the end of the game is a bug I haven’t fixed: gold fishes clone and duplicate around her, follow her, and sometimes they clone too much. When this happens, she flies into the starry sky, stuck hanging there. But sometimes, they enclose her in a hug, leading to a red 70% opacity sign filling the screen and reads, “THE END, GOOD WORK AND LOVE HARD!” which kills the avatar and puts her back to the beginning of the game again.
Added on: April 7, 2024
BLUE SUGARY MONEY - Performance
Added on: April 7, 2024