Coalfather Industries

Where are we headed as a species?  What is our relationship to the natural world and the world we are engineering?  How do we interact in these spheres and where will our culture of distraction lead us? 

These questions guide our investigation of contemporary society through an imagined future lens. They shape the artifacts we create to respond to the circumstances and environments in which we find ourselves.

Spanning disparate locations like rural farmland, suburban megastores, or city centers, we reenact a disjointed and imperfect history of contemporary humans using video, installation, drawing, painting, and live performance.

Our work contemplates the mundane aspects of everyday life, removing them from their original context to highlight the inherent absurdity, and parodies our culture of inattention, excess and oneupmanship, while also implicating ourselves.