Homonymous Confusion of Planes, 2007
For this time-based work, Setzer was stationed atop a ladder that was situated in a circle comprised of blank cotton paper. From the top of the ladder he carefully and continuously crafted paper airplanes out of loose dictionary pages. Once constructed, the planes were dropped in a tumbling manner negligent of both their function and their aerodynamic design. A monitor was nested within the circumference of the blank paper below and the “wrecked” planes began piling about it. The monitor also features Setzer, in a raw and markedly different state—writhing slowly without composure with red light emitting from his mouth. The performance work occurred periodically until the dictionary was exhausted and the monitor was completely obscured by the planes.  The artifacts of the performance remain in the gallery as an installation.