Watching ice melt on an unusually warm autumn evening.
Melting
Rencontre internationale d'art performance (RiAP) 2024
Alma, Québec, Canada
September 2024
Environmental Issues
Melting
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Crossing Water (ringing bells)
Crossing a damaged landscape on a boardwalk from the harbor, ringing a bell at evidence of human presence.
Seven Disappearances
We are sitting atop the remains of previous generations. What survives? What disappears? What changes?
Evaporation
Watching water evaporate in the desert.