Amazing Grace, Duration: 4 hours
2019
Durational performance at eye lounge Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
Part of the installation exhibition, UnWind: A Satire, Amazing Grace explored how structural bias is cultivated. Within sheer organza walls, I share hand binding using bias tape. Another performer sings Amazing Grace from the other side of the organza wall.
In conversation
2014
In Conversation
O'Reilly's Auto Parts
16045 N Cave Creek Road
Duration: 15 minutes
In Conversation was an interactive storytelling performance in which I attempted to intervene a gendered space with a nongendered story. The performance was only complete when the audience contributed a story as well, thus creating a community space.
sanctuary cloud
2014
Sanctuary Cloud
Frontal Lobe Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
Sanctuary Cloud installation and performance satirically considers intellectual property. A shadow cast by the installed cloud was marked in chalk. I performed as a security guard to stop anyone from entering the shadowed area without paying in advance.
2013
This is Now
Durational performance, 4 hours
Live Art Platform, Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
During this performance, I attempt to insert the feminine onto a male garment to create a less gendered political uniform. I invite others to help me shred my hair into small particles. Using a gel medium, I paint the hair onto a white shirt and suit jacket with a pin of the flag of the United States.
This is Now
Will You be There
2011
Performance for the Camera
Phoenix, Arizona
Questioning the threat of death, I attempt to embrace end of life without attempting to involve any after life beliefs into my performance. Threats related to loss of eternal life are disregarded by disabling speech while the interior of the mouth explores the hardness of a small skull.
Dreams caught in a net of reality
2009
Performance
Duration: 30 minutes
Paradise Valley Community College
I drag a net by my neck as it becomes increasingly burdened with house hold and office related objects typically considered to belong to a woman. I resort to pulling as my neck becomes so heavy I struggle to breathe. I try to travel across the gallery toward a waiting easel. This work explores patriarchal assignations of gendered roles.