An inquiry into the history of the land that the Fine Arts Gallery of the University of Alberta occupies, assisted by gallery visitors.
Project Archive
Bodies in the Land
This durational performance was designed to draw attention to the multitude of people who have occupied this land before us. We tend to focus on history that is within living memory, failing to remember the legions who have gone before. And yet what we know of the world today has been imprinted and altered by them.
Chornobyl
From sunrise to sunset I read aloud an account of the 1986 meltdown at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. It provided an opportunity for conversations with the audience about related topics including the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, and nuclear power.
Enough is Enough
Building a house of cards, using a custom-made deck with images of current calamities and the politicians associated with them.
As Vidas Que Raramente Notamos (The Lives We Rarely Notice)
What do we neglect to pay attention to, as we rush through our days?
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 Think!
What do you worry about in the darkness of night when you can't sleep?
Unfolding Darkness
A simple, meditative performance in the Tea Ceremony Pavilion of the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology of Kraków, Poland.