Performance | Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland ME | 2020
This performance explores the precarious authorship of the trajectory of our lives and the tension between a mother’s domestic and public aspirations, in particular. The cruel optimism that defines our American pursuit of the good life, always future-bound, exposes fault lines in our attachment to unrealizable dreams, whether private and mundane or public and immense. 6pm and Anon explores the unsteady power in the rhythms of daily life through repetitive, task-based activity that engenders the ritual of self-formation, particularly for mothers, without forgetting the more visible woman she also is. Set within a sonic environment based on a year’s worth of 1-minute recordings made each evening at 6pm, this piece invites viewers to reflect on their own sense of self that conflicts, shifts, and accretes over time through the recurrent activities and spaces we occupy daily.
Video teaser of 6PM AND ANON. Turn your volume UP!
Fugitive Spectator: Farm Edition | Scrimshaw Farm | Union, ME | 2019
Fugitive Spectator: Farm Edition was the third iteration of an ongoing project I co-create with artist and software designer Nathan Davis. Nate has designed an app which viewers/participants use to receive geo-location or timed prompts that encourage them to interact with each other and their surroundings in novel and provocative ways; I create the content—both the written prompts and physical aspects such as installations and performances. During this performance of I Do / I Did / I Do, a geo-location beacon prompted smartphones to automatically play vocal music I recorded when participants came within about 20 feet of me. I enacted a ritual involving dressing and undressing, eating, stuffing my shorts, washing, and building a sculpture from the ritual’s refuse.
