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Endurance Performance Proposition #2 (Lenny Bruce Live at Carnegie Hall)
In this piece, I performed Lenny Bruce’s entire 2 hour show from 1961 from beginning to end, speaking the language as I was hearing it over headphones. Viewers only heard my attempts … Continue reading
For My Enemies
A project in video, live performance and installation, “For My Enemies” interrogates the fantasy of the Male Genius, to both undermine and, as a female artist, to occupy it. I’m … Continue reading
Nostalgia de la boue
Nostalgia de la boue is a series of photos in which the “model minority” status of Jews and Chinese is cracked open with re-enactments of fin de siecle era racialization, which … Continue reading
Endurance Performance Proposition #3 (Fade to Black)
The third in a series of performances that attempt to crack open embodied cultural knowledge through some act of durational performance. We use the sunset as a theatrical fade to blackon the denoument–the final moment … Continue reading
Theater (1998-2008)
From 1998 to 2008, I directed (and often concurrently wrote/developed) original experimental and physical theater works. You can read my full credit list here [Resume 0212], or travel through some … Continue reading
Endurance Performance Proposition #1 (Birth of a Nation)
Six performers enact, frame by frame, what is both the first great chase of Cinema, and one of the most infamous and distasteful moments of American film history–the Flora/Gus scene … Continue reading
The Whore’s Dialogue
Inspired by the characters of the raconteuses in the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom and the extinct pornographic literary form of the whore’s dialogue, this piece is an immersive multi-channel video installation that enacts a ritual of the transmission, through language and the expertise of performance, … Continue reading
