Hands: Giving & Taking Away (2017)
(performance / installation)
(performance / installation)
Location: The Watermill Center, New York, USA
Duration: 3 hours
This is a reprise of an earlier work (Sleep Tight, 2015) created for the Watermill Center's 24th Annual Gala in Long Island, New York.
In it, four ten foot-tall bed-like structures are placed around the grounds of the center in pairs. Across them, a thick layer of cellophane is stretched to support the weight of a performer.
The performers are instructed to move minimally and sensitively but at regular intervals, as one might move while asleep.
They would coordinate amongst themselves to make sure there is always one facing up and one facing down to the audience below at all times, occasionally alternating positions.
From hidden speakers plays a spoken word titled called « Twos » about severing oneself from one's addictions.
The audience is guided to pass below the performers, who, through the cellophane, give the impression of being vacuum-sealed like packaged meat.
Duration: 3 hours
This is a reprise of an earlier work (Sleep Tight, 2015) created for the Watermill Center's 24th Annual Gala in Long Island, New York.
In it, four ten foot-tall bed-like structures are placed around the grounds of the center in pairs. Across them, a thick layer of cellophane is stretched to support the weight of a performer.
The performers are instructed to move minimally and sensitively but at regular intervals, as one might move while asleep.
They would coordinate amongst themselves to make sure there is always one facing up and one facing down to the audience below at all times, occasionally alternating positions.
From hidden speakers plays a spoken word titled called « Twos » about severing oneself from one's addictions.
The audience is guided to pass below the performers, who, through the cellophane, give the impression of being vacuum-sealed like packaged meat.