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Ascender (Video), 2006, Video performance, 10:52 min Mountaintop in North America Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany

In the Ascender video the artist climbs a mountain to perform a ritual on its summit, collapsing mystical practice with ideologies associated with ascent. The artist dresses himself with duct tape and balloons to impersonate the Dicky persona who secures for himself the essence of Will by way of the alpine-peak. SIGIIL.  As a fantasy for Control, the performance affords some slippage towards the similarly romantic desires for Collapse. Dicky is caught between suredness and hesitation, advocacy and critique, control and collapse.