Here is a selection of essays and documents that have informed various projects.
RESEARCH FROM VARIOUS PROJECTS
The Men Who Want to Live Forever
This essay by Dara Horn was often on my mind while creating the Vanitas Catalogue.
Human Subjects Review Committee
The aesthetics and language of the Stanford Experiment’s paperwork influenced several aspects of The Eurydice Experiment.
Models of Time Travel
This thesis by Guy Roland Micklethwait contributed to my thinking on time travel for The Eurydice Experiment.
Transcribing papyri fragments
I spent a lot of time browsing this project for my Unreadable Texts series.
Arquitectura y lo demás
Con el ensayo de Carlos Lazo Jr. “La arquitectura cósmico-atómica o de la cueva civilizada”, lo cual influyó la pieza The Keynote Address.
Espacios no. 30
Este revista, con una semblanza de Carlos Lazo formaba parte de la investigación para The Keynote Address.
Hayden White's The Content of Form
The book’s Preface and Ch 1:The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality
Goodbye To All That
This essay by Eric Hobswambs was central to my series of sculptures and collages that borrowed the title of his work.
The Pleasure of Ruins
The series Untitled Ruins was made from the book of photographs that accompanied this essay.
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and the Yucatan
The engravings that accompanied Stephens’s writings informed my drawings of Durazo’s parthenon.
SELECTED RESEARCH FOR THE SHOW “TO HAVE & TO HOLD”
The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings
This book by John Michael Vlach informed the Myriorama works.
1867 U.S. Congressional
A report detailing the demise of Carlota, a Confederate colony established in Veracruz, Mexico.
SELECTED RESEARCH ON ARTURO DURAZO
Artículos del semanario Proceso
Archivo Judicial de la Nación
SELECTED FALN RESEARCH
Toward People's War
FALN - Political Position / Posición Política
Grand Jury and Contempt Trial
FALN - Security and the Cadre
In Defense of Armed Struggle
FALN - Communique No. 10
Puerto Rico, el FBI y los crimenes de la contrarevolución anticubana
El país de cuatro pisos y otros ensayos
The Legal Work Defending Independentistas in the U.S.
The FBI and Puerto Rico: Notes on a Conflictive History
SELECTED EL SALVADOR PROJECT RESEARCH
Marguerite Duras’s script Hiroshima Mon Amour
Colwell’s El Salvador Project was inspired by Alain Resnais’s film Hiroshima Mon Amor and in particular Marguerite Duras’s script for the film.
From Madness to Hope
The Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador concerning the 12-year civil war.
"Subject: The FMLN Today"
Telegram from the US Embassy in San Salvador on February, 1988 reviewing the state of the FMLN army and its strategy.
Subject: Violence Week in Review
September 29, 1980. The first report of the US Embassy’s weekly summery of violence for the duration of the civil war.