• Food Works: Cake Feeding

    Food Works: Cake Feeding

    Having a fraught relationship to food, I initiated a series that playfully confronted myself, and the viewer (-turned participant), in a ritual of vicarious eating – revolving around the feeding of cake. In this sticky negotiation, the mundane is foregrounded and transformed through an awkward, yet earnest, nurturing act. [Feature photo: Ellen Friis]

  • The Consent Experiments

    The Consent Experiments

    These participatory performances became inquiries into the question of negotiation and consent in relational works. Wanting to consider audience agency, situations were set up in which an audience member could accept (or not) the role of becoming participant. Further, if accepting to participate, deciding precisely how. [Feature photo: Jussi Virkkumaa]

  • The Listening Sessions

    The Listening Sessions

    The listening sessions brought folks together to spend quality time listening to music. In the space of a white cube, staring at a blank wall in unison, I was curious to explore how such an invitation for being together could potentially create meaningful connections among acquaintances, but especially among “strangers.”  [Feature photo: Jessica Hébert]