Aimee Goguen is a Los Angeles-born visual artist working primarily in drawing, painting, sculpture, and moving-image. Goguen’s video work examines degradation, voyeurism, vulnerability, and power in relation to human behavior. Her videos reclaim the grotesque and process trauma by crafting scenarios that re-imagine societal and inter-subjective dynamics as staged, repetitive actions, where accustomed exploitation is heightened and thereby critiqued. Goguen’s format is both analog-and-digital, prioritizing hand-made processes. Goguen’s video work has been featured in Bee Reaved by Dodie Bellamy and The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, reviewed by William J. Simmons. Through painting and sculpture, Goguen emphasizes deterioration and decomposition. Goguen’s sculptural work involves a process of collecting scattered pieces of waste and remains of demolished structures, colorful toys and plastics, and other miscellaneous discarded and recycled materials. Practical effects and violent time-based manipulations, such as dissociation and rapid combustion or detonation also inform Goguen’s drawing practice. She is currently the Archivist for Michael Taussig.