Polluere

Endurance performance, 2016

I step back and forth between a bowl of water and a bowl of mud, mixing the substances until each bowl is filled with equal parts mud. The purity of the water and its connotation of cleanliness disappears as the mud pervades body, floor, and basins.

This performance is part of Simple Actions, a series that explores the meditative possibilities of domestic labor. Many of my actions reflect a Sisyphean futility, a repetition that renders minimal production. I perform each act in an abandoned industrial site, a place of male-dominance in the global West. My bodily presence, and my reference to traditionally female roles, opens a dialog that centers upon gender, history, location, and our common desires for what is unattainable, and continually elusive.