Reassembling the shreds of the United States Constitution and other founding documents.
Reconstitution
Cindy Baker's Big Thing: 50th birthday Performance Art Celebration
amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada
June 2025
Durational Performances
Reconstitution
Resisting, Surviving
Learning ways to resist fascism.
Melting
Watching ice melt on an unusually warm autumn evening.
Retour à la terre (Return to earth)
Assisting nature by attempting to turn a fallen tree branch into dirt.
El don del agua (The gift of water)
Sitting under a young oak tree in the garden outside the cultural center, I invited people to talk with me about water, and about their experience of the recent drought.
Voices
Spending six hours in a derelict Victorian terrace house, blindfolded, examining the front room and whispering to its presences.
Learning Here
An inquiry into the history of the land that the Fine Arts Gallery of the University of Alberta occupies, assisted by gallery visitors.
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.