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SURVIVOR! 98 SECOND STORIES

In response to #metoo, I created an ensemble performance with artist survivors of sexual assault for The LA Art Show as part of DiverseArtLA. Bravely, we shared our survivor stories in front of the international art community to demand an end to sexual violence. The filmed version of the performance went on to become an award winning documentary.

I just love you

Love performance and immersive installation over 5 days at Ping Pong, an official project space of Art Basel in Switzerland. I shared authentic loving experiences with participants which included hugging, hand holding, eye gazing and taking naps in the gallery. No words were ever exchanged.

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I just love me

Self-love performance and immersive installation over 5 days at Ping Pong, an official project space of Miami Basel. This performance represented an inner transformation of reclaiming and unconditionally loving all parts of myself and reclaiming my identity, power and voice.

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The cupcake project

The Cupcake Project was a three year traveling performance and immersive installation project created in response to the hunger epidemic in America. I bartered cupcakes for stories, which hung inside a traveling emergency tent / installation. The project was exhibited at The Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Utah MOCA, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University and more. The project was made possible with funding from a Durfee Grant.

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The distempered series

Created in collaboration with The Shimojo Lab at Caltech, this series explored visualized renderings of my thoughts created by recording my brainwaves and transliterating them into layered digital images.

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EMPTINESS IS FORM

Larger than life sound waves depict a visualized rendering of my voice chanting the Buddhist teaching known as "The Heart of Perfect Understanding." This project was dedicated to Thich Nhat Hanh and the personal and global transformation experienced through the practice of Mindfulness.

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perceive me

Kristine Schomaker invited 60 artists to participate in a touring exhibit centered on Kristine and her journey toward radical self-love and acceptance. The all-media project is about taking back our bodies, owning our uniqueness and loving ourselves no matter our size and shape.

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CLOSET DISCO MEMORIAL

Closet Disco Memorial is an installation dedicated to my late brother, DJ Ben Tobias and all individuals whose lives have been lost by suicide. Ben was a DJ at the height of the disco era at WCPC, a safe haven for the San Diego LGBTQIA community and a headquarters for the gay rights movement. The focal point of the disco-like installation is a photo collage with archival images and text. Also featured are Ben's original albums and Billboard Award.

MERE

This intimate series of self-portraits explores my relationship with major life transitions and the in-between space of moving from one stage of life to another. Emerging from grief and fear into acceptance and hope, the dream-like images fuse the conscious and unconscious states of being that we experience through times of difficult change.