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Guided By Voices
(video shorts)
"rock & roll isn't even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over." ~Mark E. Smith
Featured Projects:
THE GATORVERSE 2024 - Onward
Video Series 2025 - Onward
BSR Newsroom
N.W.P..S.O.C. 2014
Break in Case of Emergency 2010
Josh’s Garage 2009
BSR Omaha 2013
CIT 2009-2017
BSR Toffia 2013
Doris 2024
Inventory - For Sale
Going To Hell 2012
Pickle Rick AM 2022
Speed Trials JH 2019
Supply Chain Issues 2023
Taosburg 2023
Cardboard City 2023
Table Top Disco Balls 2024
Bomb Shelter Radio Memphis 2013
Holding It Down 2013
BSR Mach 2 2011
These Are My Friends 2014
BSR Tenderlion 2012
BSR Monster Truck 2017
Touchdown Jesus 2012
Lucille Valentine Tour 2016, 2017
Wildone 66 USA 2018
Josh for hire
#1 Shit Show (Video)
2025Installation Variable
Resin, Thermoplastic, wood, paint, fabric, vinyl, electronics
- The Shit Show employs scale and ramshackle engineering to function as your entry point into the "Gatorverse," a parallel dimension. This interactive diorama is a rich bricolage of altered everyday objects, cast-off materials, and 3D-modeled components. When the viewer activates the sound and light mechanisms, the work transforms, actively blurring the line between a miniature world and an expansive installation.
#2 Sit Your Ass Down
2025Installation variable
Resin, Thermoplastic, wood, paint, fabric, vinyl
- Sit Your Ass Down is an interactive installation that pulls the viewer into a parallel dimension known as the "Gatorverse". The piece is a bricolage of cast-off, altered, and 3D-modeled components that uses sound, light, and scale for storytelling. Viewers experience the "Healing sounds of Alligator Bellows" while being monitored by a CCTV unit. The Droste effect is used to visually connect the audience's real-time experience to the diorama.
#3 SWMP Radio
202521” x 12” x 25”
Resin, Thermoplastic, wood, paint
SWMP Radio explores the survival of the airwaves as a primary site of public resistance. While digital infrastructures are prone to surveillance and obsolescence, the analog nature of radio offers a resilient alternative for the people. This video work captures the raw, DIY energy of a 'mobile sanctuary' in the Gatorverse, where the broadcast is not just entertainment, but a survival strategy. It highlights radio’s unique power to create a 'Temporary Autonomous Zone'—a space where history, rock n’ roll, and community can converge without permission.
#4 The Great Escape
202510” x 11” x 12”
Resin, Thermoplastic, wood, paint
The 1963 film The Great Escape speaks to the indomitable human spirit, resilience, camaraderie, and the fight for freedom and dignity against oppression, showing how ordinary men use ingenuity, teamwork, and determination to defy their captors and escape despair, even when faced with immense odds and tragedy. It's a celebration of courage, hope, and the power of unity, balancing harrowing war realities with moments of wit and heart. This piece is an homage to those ideas, but set in the Gatorverse.
#5 The Ark
202510” x 11” x 12”
Resin, Thermoplastic, wood, paint
#6 Customer Pickup @ Walmart, Tampa FL
202512” x 12” x 10”
Resin, Thermoplastic, wood, paint, fabric, vinyl
Step into the humid, neon-lit origins of the Gatorverse. This video unearths the history behind 'Customer Pickup @ Walmart, Tampa FL,' bridging the gap between today’s asphalt parking lots and a future defined by flesh-and-steel syncretism. It reframes the mundane act of the 'customer pickup' as a pivotal ritual in a world where consumer detritus has become the building blocks of a new evolutionary path.
#7 Sub Storm
202048” x 24” x 16”
charcoal, paper, LED, cast off speakers, field recordings
- The charcoal drawings have LED’s embedded in paper that are activated by the various sounds of Kansas thunder storms.
#8 Pickle Rick AM
202232” x 48” x 12”
Wood, thermoplastics, repurposed car stereo, speakers, cloth, pant
-Instrument using granular synthesis by way of AM radio broadcasts
#9 Operation Success: Mobile Radio Transmitter and Receiver Unit
2022Variable Dimensions
Wood, Paint, Fm Transmitter, found stereo equipment
#10 Speed Trials: Memphis Overview
2020Site Specific Installation - Scale is flexible
Cardboard, wood, reclaimed exercise treadmill, RC vehicles, fabric, surveillance equipment
- The Speed Trials Arcade is an installation of mechanical art objects that function as interactive arcade games. The audience is invited to play, exploring themes from our collective zeitgeist of driving—specifically, long-haul trucking, cop chases, traffic jams, and the global supply chain.
#11 Speed Trials: Haul’n Ass Detail
202086” x 48” x 26”
Cardboard, wood, reclaimed exercise treadmill, RC vehicles, fabric, surveillance equipment
#12 Speed Trials: Haul’n Ass Detail 2
2020Site Specific Installation - Scale is flexible
Cardboard, wood, reclaimed exercise treadmill, RC vehicles, fabric, surveillance equipment
#13 Speed Trials: Slow Speed Chase
2020Site Specific Installation - Scale is flexible
Cardboard, wood, reclaimed exercise treadmill, RC vehicles, fabric, surveillance equipment
#14 Speed Trials: Slow Speed Chase (controller view)
2020Site Specific Installation - Scale is flexible
Cardboard, wood, reclaimed exercise treadmill, RC vehicles, fabric, surveillance equipment
#15 Hot Summer Nights
202014” x 18”
Silk Screen on Fabric, Neon, Wood
#17 Bomb Shelter Radio
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