Stage, 2021
Wooden stage, 96 x 53 in.

Is it possible to not perform what I feel, and what I do? With this question in mind, I made a work which creates a rhetorical space of interaction. When stepped on one’s status changes from ‘non-performer’ to ‘performer’, expectation shifts, creating a potential of what comes next. The size was made especially for one person to move freely on its surface.

In “Body and Stage Occupy Space,” I filmed a sequence of myself walking around the stage, stepping on and off. The focus of the action was placed on walking, and how the stage’s space shifts the way I am seen as a performer.

 Made in Chicago, IL.