Performance
Body Coiling, Performance 2016
A continual work in progress, Body Coiling is formed using slow craft practice and household textile reuse. The fabrics used are material signifiers of cultural place and personal history. These are deconstructed, braided and hand sewn to form one endless, cyclical configuration.
By mapping this slow, high labour making, as well as what is understood about the function of rugs onto the body: warmth, insulation, decoration, the object stepped on and beneath which matters to be concealed are “swept under,” Body Coiling re-crafts how we perceive, perform and experience identity and corporality. The colonial settlement artifact, re-made into that which is alive and changeable, underscores the agency of the object, and conversely, limitations to human agency.
When entering and exiting the piece, it stretches and moves with the body resembling a larval shape or motion.
Feminist Artist Conference and Residency 2015
Voluntary Reclusion, Performance 2015
An insulating comfort derived from reclusive tendencies.
Photo by Ryan Pechnick
Grey Aphid Body Rug, Performance
Biomimetic movement featuring aphid behaviour.
