| EPISODE 8: WORKING FRAMWORKS || A.2: EROS, ALWAYS ALREADY |

Film Essay

Working Frameworks poses a speculative inquiry into the convergence of two seemingly disparate institutional models: an art collective operating within the dilapidated, industrial remnants of an obsolete factory, and the intellectual, institutionalized framework of an Ivy League university’s educational mandate. The collage series interrogates the potential tensions and synergies that emerge when grassroots, countercultural practices intersect with the prestige, resources, and formalized pedagogy of academia. By positioning this merger within the charged space of an abandoned factory—an archetype of industrial decline—the work explores the politics of space, labor, and knowledge production, questioning how historical contingencies, social hierarchies, and material conditions might shape, challenge, or redefine artistic and educational practices. The factory, once a site of production, becomes a new locus for the negotiation of intellectual and creative labor within the context of institutional power.

Act

Act 3: Eros, Always Already | Agile Cinema® operates as a reflexive apparatus within contemporary media praxis, staging intimate engagements with its interlocutors—artists, curators, actors, scholars, executive creatives, chefs, musicians, collectors, poets, and filmmakers—not merely as subjects, but as co-producers in a durational and participatory aesthetic encounter. This mode of ‘agile’ production reconfigures traditional hierarchies of authorship and spectatorship, producing what might be termed participatory media, in which the lines between creation and reception are deliberately blurred. Situated within a dramaturgy of metalepsis and fourth-wall rupture, the project embraces a performative destabilization of narrative boundaries. Drawing on the traditions of collage, montage, and theatrical assemblage, Eros, Always Already stages a hybridized cultural space where public and private, fiction and documentary, converge. It is a gesture of aesthetic and affective entanglement—a dramaturgical act of love—that treats the creative process not merely as content generation, but as relational poiesis in a shared field of becoming.

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Double-Sided Collages | 4 x 4″ | 8 x 8" | 20 x 20" | 36 x 36"

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Bricolage

Collage, Montage, Assemblage

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