Are you there? We call and respond to one another across temporalities, distances, and histories. Within the unsettled space of fragile or potential alliances lives a desire originating from the basic need for contact. What needs caring for is forgotten in the emergency at hand and in a willful or unwitting blindness to the structures which blur or deny our humanity. How do we care for grief? How do we redefine happiness? What does this effort look like?
I make objects and costumes for use in time-based projects in order to explore these and other labors and their effect on the body and on simple actions like sitting, breathing or walking. Playful situations belie an undercurrent of the absurd and disturbing. Humor is central in my work– a set up, an entrance or escape- humor ruptures the quotidian. Laughter primes us for suspense, what next? My projects are conceived with that tension in mind and as recursive along parallel planes: a live performance is a destination as well as a point of departure; documentation becomes material as well as a part of an archive revealing new ways of imagining the future. Audience, perspective, and meanings expand and shift, remaining fluid.