Performance Proposals

Durational -

I sing It Feels Like Home to Me for 6 hours straight, dressed in rags and holding a sign that requests a donation, in the downtown east side.

Relational -

I disrobe and allow others to label my body using a sharpie pen with any labels that come to mind, as they read the label out loud.

Ritual -

I start out with 10 cups of black tea.
I lay out a very large sheet of paper and drop a cup of black tea on it, shattering it.
I smear the tea as much as possible. I repeat the process with 9 more cups of tea, but each
time I smear the tea I pick up shards of tea cup, that I put into subsequent cups of tea I break upon the floor.

Archival Performances:

Stelarc's Suspension performances took place from 1976 to 1988, in Japan (where he was living at the time), Europe, the United States, and Australia (where he's from).

His aim was to introduce the concept of the body as a structural object (sculpture), and as an evolutionary architecture that could be manipulated to expand human experience.

He began his performances using ropes and harnesses to support his body, but soon discovered Hindu Indian piercings as a means of elegantly suspending the body, using his own skin as the support structure for his performances

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In Painting Face Down - White Line (1972).

Paul McCarthy lies, face down, and gradually spills the contents of a paint can filled with white paint on the floor of the gallery space. He drags his body through the paint he spills, creating a white line.

In this work, he not only comments on what might be considered the process of abstract painting, but also on the relationship between consumerism, consumption, and it's effects on society.

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photo by Leslie Hasbim

In Loving Care (1992), Janine Antoni performs at Anthony D' Offay Gallery in London. She submerges her long dark wavy hair into a bucket of Loving Care hair dye. She then mops the floor with her hair, writhing and twisting her body, to cover the gallery's floor. Gradually, as she marks her territory with a beauty product that women use to appear more youthful and attractive to men, within a space that is traditionally dominated by men's work, she executes great feminist power by pushing gallery visitors out of the room, that now inhabits her "women's work".