Los Angeles performance art

Thank You for Your Service

November 4, 2022 by admin

Thank You for Your Service utilizes the form of a military funeral to bury the placenta from the artist’s pregnancy. The script for the eulogy appropriates medical journalists’ descriptions of placental growth as “military invasion”. Through speech, song, and movement, attendees are guided through the enactment of burial rites usually reserved for members of the […]

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Good Verbal

May 18, 2022 by admin

The teacher/the mistress, the Madonna/the whore: Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, or Miranda. How does the divided feminine activate male lives, and where can we find representations of wholeness? In Good Verbal (the divided feminine talks back) the artist remixes excerpts from Joey Soloway’s 2016 TIFF keynote with lines from Cruel Intentions (1999), emails from academic administrators, […]

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Casually Destroying the Patriarchy

December 20, 2017 by admin

Video excerpt of performance at Satellite Art Fair, Miami FL [December 7, 2017] Durational performance that involves chipping away at a giant wall of ice with stiletto heels. Performance ends when ice wall/artist’s outfit is destroyed. Excerpt from performance statement: A wall of ice is just a glass ceiling tipped on its side. I will […]

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7 Minutes in Hell | a LUNAR PERFORMANCE

August 6, 2017 by admin

Sartre says hell is other people, but Freud insists that’s just a projection. Performance goes so deep these days that we forget that we sit in the audience of our own life-show. We cross paths in the closet, elevator, booth, gloryhole, dark alley, transient half-formed space, and I become your audience of one–acting as your […]

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Art Scene

September 8, 2015 by admin

Art Scene, performance with Christine Wang, 2015. Duration: 23 minutes

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