Elcin Pia Joyner

Untitled: Expanded Cinema #1

Intervention in cinematic space with projectors and mirror prisms

Pollock Theater

Santa Barbara, CA

"Namely, that anything – my body, Earth, a car – these are the imaginings of the movement, which is our cosmos. Even that which stands still, like a sculpture on a pedestal or a temple carved in the Himalayas, is actually continually moving at the quantum level, as well as hurtling with the rest of us on Earth around the Sun at an incredible pace. "

Untitled: Expanded Cinema #2

Intervention in cinematic space with projectors and mirror prisms

Joshua Tree Desert, CA

“To dream of islands – whether with joy or in fear – is to dream of pulling away, of being already separate, far from any continent, of being lost and alone – or to dream of starting from scratch, recreating, beginning anew”

– Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands

Ziggurat

Intervention in military simulation space with a Ziggurat

Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Mojave Desert, CA

". . . In that empire, the art of cartography attained such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the entirety of a city, and the map of the empire, the entirety of a province. In time, those unconscionable maps no longer satisfied, and the cartographers guilds struck a map of the empire whose size was that of the empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following generations, who were not so fond of the study of cartography as their forebears had been, saw that that vast map was useless, and not without some pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the inclemencies of Sun and winters. In the deserts of the west, still today, there are tattered ruins of that map, inhabited by animals and beggars; in all the land there is no other relic of the disciplines of geography."

- Jorge Luis Borges, On Exactitude in Science

Xtc

Intervention in public space with an X

UC Santa Barbara Campus, Goleta, CA

Xtc is an interactive, multi-dimensional checkers game (draughts). It has a magnetic surface and made of 22 joined ‘borderless’ boards. Players can start the game at any given point and transverse through different boards and surfaces by jumping their opponents pieces.

Dimensions variable

Tall Box

Intervention in public space with a tall mail box

Santa Barbara, CA

And End

Intervention in public space with road signs

Lake Cachuma, CA

Aluminum, acrylic polyurethane paint, reflective vinyl overlay, wood

Dimensions variable

Mobile Charlie

Intervention in public space with a police car and a replica of Check Point Charlie

Various Locations

"Check Point Charlie as an object is an emphasis on the imaginary/textual character of space and borders, and everyday life over the brute force of underlying social structures, particularly the capitalist political economy."