Stain: Wine

Performance, 2017

Stain: Wine is a collaborative performance with my first born. Together we stain a white cotton cloth in red wine, and then immerse it in water. The back-and-forth of water and wine, mother and child, connotes a multi-generational attempt at religious sanctification.

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.