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MISSION VOICES SUMMER |
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What is the relationship of a museum to an artist? How is trust established between institutional regiment and the artist's expression?
Through a series of trust-building exercises, I playfully asked the museum to let me violently knock a hole in their wall using one of their own hammers and then to write me a blank check for doing so. With the accountant present, a private performance was enacted wherein the check was destroyed by immersion in black paint. All materials for the project were provided by the museum–I showed up empty-handed. |
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How can spaces reserved for internment, be used by the living as a safe space to reflect on one own's mortality? How does the passing of time–marked by the rotation of our planet and moon–affect our contemplations on longevity?
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With a series of actions, I ask spectators to turn their attention to their own bodies and the precarious experience of living in flesh and bone.
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What does it feel like to move through the world as if walking on marbles? Isn't our sense of stability clearly challenged when we consider how quickly life can be taken away?
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During the Victorian era, infant and child mortality rates could be as high as 33% in some area. How did this affect the psychological relationship of a mother to her newborn child? What rituals and customs developed and more importantly, how do these customs translate to modern day living and dying?
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