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Still Surfacing
A performance installation created in collaboration with dancer-choreographer, Julia Mayer, Still Surfacing was part of a larger collaborative effort, known as DIG, that involved five pairs of performance and installation artists presenting work simultaneously in and around the Creative Reuse Warehouse in Chicago*. Still Surfacing occupied an isolated interior passageway in a corner of the warehouse, and pierced through to the exterior via brick-size wall openings. Gilded paper bags rested in the wall openings, glycerin bricks lined a window, a gilded locker stood sentry, and rope ladders rose to the rafters. According to a loose improvisational score, Julia, myself and a third performer engaged with the physical attributes and poetic atmosphere of the installation in two four hour performances, and two eight hour performances as the audience arrived and left freely. Still Surfacing embodied our curiosity about the nature of quietude, the poetic potential of the warehouse architecture, and the space of childhood reverie.
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