Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto
May-June 2023
Precarious Lines was a residency at the Arcadia Art Gallery in Toronto where I created an installation, a performance called Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, 10 large charcoal drawings and, with videographer Alexandra Gelis, several videos documenting the performances of getting up from a chair and the drawings made in response.
I was exploring my performance of disability and aging, using the act of my own drawing as the primary mode of witnessing the performance of my daily struggle to get up from a chair.
As a physically disabled performance artist I asked: how can my own drawing practice become a transformative witness of my daily performance, as performance art, of the basic acts of mobility.
Video tour of the Precarious Lines installation.
Video of one performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair.
Video of one performance of drawing in response to getting up from a chair in Precarious Lines.
I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des Arts du Canada.
