Performance Practice, 2024, series of graphite drawings and mixed media sculpture, University of California San Diego, CA
The drawings are renderings of sites where performances take place. These objects function as stages — the body activates these objects and additional bodies are always implied — whether audience, examiner, or captor. By juxtaposing imagery that invokes the medical, carceral, or athletic, a common theatrical language emerges. What kinds of disciplinary regimes do we volunteer ourselves for — for the sake of betterment, order, and “progress”?
