To me, performance lies at the intersection of the public and the personal. Through human action and the body, intimate interactions are exposed in a meeting between artist and audience, revealing some element of who we really are – in both our sensuality and our ordinariness. I make performances and installations out of an effort to understand the complexities and paradoxes of day-to-day life and our relationships to one another. In observing the ordinary and even awkward, I sort out and enunciate the unexpectedly beautiful.
delicate hold.
I couldn’t decide: did I want you?
I wanted you
or, …did I want to be you?
you – the object of my desire.
my future self.
delicate hold is a poetic map of desire. An archive of sorts.
A list.
What desires are known and unknown to us? Can we pursue them with a tender abandon?
portfolio
again
Can a gesture ever be performed the same way twice? Does a memory change every time you recount it?
a multi-media performance work with movement, text, image, and original sound
again (again)
a second version of again, again.
Chicago IL
(2017)
Nocturne
a durational performance piece that tracks the traces of the body, imagining the marks it leaves, and the memory of someone else’s movements.
with video installation, for a gallery setting, (2012-2014)
Chance
a public art project that appeared in and around DC and considered the luck of being in the ‘right place at the right time.'
Washington, DC in 2007.