Teetering on an Edge…making space for the fumble, the fall, the ambiguity of the line.
Pi*llOry (first edition)
Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto, July 18, 2019
My work speaks from the precariousness of negotiating im/mobility through disability and aging. Stumbling between being visible and invisible, I revel in the unwilling body in performance.
“Teetering on an Edge” was a response to the accumulated trauma of falling. It was a public outing of my dis-abled un-abled body. But it was an opportunity to reframe my own narrative. I could be in control. Although enacting a fall and its consequences I was able to place it within the context of a conceptual metaphor, a vertical line drawn with charcoal on a column and a horizontal line drawn with my walking sticks lying on the floor and my body stretched out and struggling to move forward to a stool and my only way up from the floor.
