Walk: Water I

Performance, 2015

Two buckets are placed at the ends of a corridor - one full of water, the other empty. I strive to transport the water from the full bucket to the empty with a soaking cloth. As I walk the length of the room, the cloth continually drips and I loose half the water.

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.