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STRINGS ATTACHED

2011-2013, 2021

WHAT ARE THE STRINGS/ROLES I AM BOUND TO?

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WHAT IS THE BALANCE?
WHAT IS THE BREAKING POINT

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SUSPENDED IN THIS PERFORMANCE THERE ARE TWO DESIRES.
DESIRE TO STAY SAFE. DESIRE TO BREAK FREE.

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FALL, GET BACK UP. FALL, GET BACK UP.
AT THE EDGE OF PAIN AND FEAR IS THE CLARITY OF WHO WE ARE. 

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Strings can represent many things. Roles of a woman, an artist, a mother, a wife. Relationships to others, relationships to self. What does it mean to say ‘no strings attached’ or to break those strings? What am I without those strings? 

 

The context is a female body, and the seemingly unmonumental act of a woman performing alone in the abandoned baths at the edge of the ocean. That ocean funnels into a bay and is spanned by the incredible monumentality of steel and cable that makes the Golden Gate bridge.The performance plays physically with the tensions of being ourselves. What I learn is something I understood clearly when I was a child building sand castles and forts. I am stuck with me.

WHAT AM I ASKING MYSELF?

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ME?

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WHAT AM I CAPABLE OF?

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