An inquiry into the history of the land that the Fine Arts Gallery of the University of Alberta occupies, assisted by gallery visitors.
Gallery Performances
The Remains of Memory
How many days have you been alive? How many of those days can you recall?
This performance was about what is left of our lives in the end, how we might assemble the fragments, and hopefully how we might make some kind of sense from it all.
What really will we leave behind?
Water Moving
Water Moving was a 12-day contemplative investigation examining the movement of water. Every day on the floor of the gallery I marked the paths along which the water traveled and evaporated.
still. here
still
stillness
nevertheless
still
here
Don’t Look!
What are we ignoring? What are we avoiding? What do we refuse to see?
Lifting my own blinders to examine my contribution to climate collapse, by assessing my carbon footprint.
Apotheosis/Journey to the Inmost Cave: Waiting for Sunrise
Waiting for Sunrise, in silence, from sunset at 5:04 pm on Friday to sunrise at 7:48 am on Saturday - fourteen hours and forty-four minutes.
still. waiting
Approaching an empty table.
Marking Time VI
A durational performance confronting the emptiness of time.
Letter to Bob
In a program of performances created in response to documents in 'Emergency Index 2011,' I read a letter to Bob, written in response to Rachelle Beaudoin's 'Letters to Vito.'
U.S. Domestic Policy II
This performance was a response to the November 2010 elections in the US, and what they foretell.