Quindo Miller
Endless, 2024
Steel, rope, tarp, lamp parts, cinder block, wood planks, TV, electronic components, rug
Courtesy of the artist

This work is on loan for the exhibition, Living Here, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, June 20 - December 20, 2025

“For a while, I’ve been thinking about my family and the traditions that we hold, and observed that we always sing karaoke,” writes Quindo Miller. Karaoke, with its “recurring themes of home, solitude, and repetition,” is a ritual that the family members have in common no matter how far they travel around the globe. This interactive installation shifts the karaoke machine from the domestic closeness of a family home to the space of a museum gallery where visitors are invited to take on the role of the vulnerable yet brave performer who expresses their feelings through song. Miller has chosen songs from 1993 to 2005, a period of time that coincides with their childhood and young adulthood. “That time frame (for me, anyway) seems to stretch endlessly, marked by its own realm of possibilities, distinct from the constraints of adulthood.”

The framed objects on the wall in Endless are titled Homeland. “These artworks are framed pieces of wood veneer salvaged from my grandmother's house in the aftermath of Typhoon Mawar, which made landfall in Guam, March 2023. The pieces of wood were from a closet, painted pink, and ModPodged with magazines by my mother sometime in the ‘90s. During our visit, we found the pieces, laid them out to dry, then shipped them in a suitcase back to Las Vegas. I rearranged and framed them using matte board and archival tape.”