INSTALLATIONS
Home
2014 | Barn wood, found objects
Since 2014, Birch has transformed habitation into a living performance through “Home” — a self-sustained, off-grid dwelling built from barn wood and found objects. Birch enacts a long-term living performance commenting on autonomy and resistance.
The project rejects commodified living and the conventions of rent, instead reclaiming discarded materials and unoccupied land to challenge traditional notions of ownership and sustainability. More than a shelter, it is a statement on the resilience of resourcefulness and the art of adaptation. Inviting viewers to question societal norms, the piece implicates each viewer as they imagine alternative ways of living that embrace imperfection, independence, and a deeper connection to place.
Bike
2018 | Steel, found objects
This working sculpture recontextualizes discarded steel and found objects into a functional, reimagined vehicle. As part of an ongoing exploration of systems of living and creative reuse, the work challenges passive consumption by giving new purpose to overlooked materials. “Bike” rethinks how we engage with the objects that shape our daily lives. Designed for public use, the work blurs the line between art and function.
Raft
2020 | Wood, rope, found objects
“Raft” is a contemplative installation crafted from wood and found objects, evoking the fragile isolation of the pandemic and the quiet weight of mourning. Participants step into the role of a lifeboat captain, navigating the precarious balance between loss and survival as the structure rapidly sinks. Through this immersive metaphor, the piece explores the rituals we turn to for healing—acts of reckoning, resilience, and release. The work invites participants to confront vulnerability while discovering strength in the shared experience of uncertainty. By merging tactile interaction with symbolic narrative, “Raft” becomes a physical and emotional vessel for reflection, offering a moment of solace amidst the currents of collective grief.
Church
2024 | Wood, candles, paint, collage
In this visceral, immersive performance, the artist leads participants through the threshold of the known world into the subterranean dark of forgotten infrastructure. The group crawls through a narrow tunnel — an act of physical humility — before descending into the expansive silence of a stormwater overflow chamber.
This solemn procession follows the path of a buried creek, tracing the city’s hidden veins until it reaches an unexpected sanctuary: a candle-lit church. At its heart stands a pulpit, collaged with an outstretched hand adorned with the “saints" of the artist's practice — as series of tools. After a shared silence, the space is activated as participants deliver sermons from the pulpit. The artist concludes the ritual with a poem about reclaiming space.
LOOKOUT
2020 | Scrap wood, rope, paint, collage
A site-specific sculpture of monumental scale, “Lookout” invites participants to ascend through a network of scaffolding and ropes into the soaring internal arches of a railway bridge. This vertical journey grants access to a space decorated with murals of outstretched hands, each governed by the "saints" — tools of survival, resilience, and resourcefulness that anchor the artist’s practice. Several stories tall, the work was constructed by ferrying salvaged wood down a canal with a handmade boat, and rappelling from the towering tracks above.
"Lookout” transforms industrial remnants by reclaiming forgotten, inaccessible spaces and instead offering an experience of fear, awe, joy, and discovery.
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