USA Projects

I am an artist drawn to performance as one of our oldest forms of storytelling. The fear. Blood and spit--the susurration of gain and loss beyond language, beyond objects. I'm afraid we'll lose this art, or it will change so much we'll forget the stink of each other.

I enact rituals and tell stories using my body and the bodies of others. If stories aren't re-told and distorted, they petrify. I steal from tradition, religious practice, and from my collaborators and get their stories wrong on purpose in order to make them right in another way.

My practice involves personal intervention into the muck of inherited mythology, public actions, and volunteer and forced collaborations. I explore ritual activity such as cleaning, funereal rites, and simple athletic actions; all to muddy the waters we stand in because, after all, they are our waters.

My career began with intensive study with artist William Pope.L at Bates College. Since then I have shown work at the Museum of Modern Art, Exit Art, Grace Exhibition Space, and English Kills Gallery as well as in public through projects such as 40*PHI art in the parks in New York City. I am a 2011 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art recipient, and will travel to Bitola, Macedonia in November 2011 to participate in the pan-European live art festival Exchange Radical Moments on 11.11.11.