Nation Building (test screens), 2005, 4-Channel video, all video runtimes approx. 15 min., 

Nation Building (test screens) (2005) is a detour through architectural modernism by way of the ruins of its adherents’ designs for diplomacy. Four thematic, chronological and geographic loci are the subjects of separate rear-projected videos ranged in parallel. From the first bombing of a U.S. embassy in Saigon in 1965, to the work of the Foreign Buildings Office, to the utopian aspirations of the United Nations, to the contemporary realities of terrorism and armored architecture, the tripartite constellation of architectural modernism, nation building and empire is shown to hold the capacity of its own undoing.