Offering

Performance, 2013

Separated from my son during an artist residency, I collected the last of my breastmilk and poured it upon the ground of an abandoned silo. Through this simple ritual, I designate sacred value to the disregarded space and transform my bodily milk into a baptismal signifier.

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.

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View the video documentation in collaboration with artist Aaron Henderson, exhibited at Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, hosted by dfbrl8r gallery, Chicago.