Nathaniel Sullivan 4/1/22 Nathaniel Sullivan 4/1/22

Performing (with) in Zoom

Recently, I presented my decade long performance art project, Before The Nation Went Bankrupt to a video art class from Maine College of Art & Design over the conferencing app Zoom. In order to make it work, it required some conceptual and technical adjustments.

Nathaniel Sullivan 12/11/20 Nathaniel Sullivan 12/11/20

Some Very Fine People

Nathaniel Sullivan 12/11/20 Nathaniel Sullivan 12/11/20

April 5, 2020

Nathaniel Sullivan 5/28/20 Nathaniel Sullivan 5/28/20

Repatriate The Vessel

Hudson Yards, the most expensive real estate development in US history, was partially funded by a cynically gerrymandered map that included housing projects in East Harlem to qualify it for a tax break intended for distressed neighborhoods. The Vessel is the centerpiece of the Hudson Yards development, a climbable tourist attraction that I am petitioning to have moved uptown to the projects.

Nathaniel Sullivan 4/17/20 Nathaniel Sullivan 4/17/20

The Seventh Seal and The Modern Plague

A gong is struck once at the beginning of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. There is no image and sound slowly decays into a dark silence. On Saturday morning, in the second week of a worldwide quarantine, New York was quiet enough to hear birdsong.

Nathaniel Sullivan 3/27/20 Nathaniel Sullivan 3/27/20

Visualizing The Virus

Collaborative drawings with Bianca (3 years old), during the first two weeks of lockdown, March 2020.

Nathaniel Sullivan 2/19/20 Nathaniel Sullivan 2/19/20

A Vast Neoliberal Zion

“A Vast Neoliberal Zion” is a guided walking tour of Hudson Yards, the largest real estate development in the history of the United States. As a whole, Hudson Yards is a pacifying spectacle, an embodiment of the excesses of the global 0.1%, and a monument to absurd legal structures that are endemic to late capitalism.