Performance Art
Bad Light
Absurdist Musical Theatre Performance Subverting Cultural Norms and Perfectionism
"I'm not living my own life," sings the hostess condescendingly, setting the tone for an evening of witty commentary and introspection. As Austin's therapist reminds her, "What you resist will persist," a sentiment that elicits both laughter and tears. It’s gonna get messy, with a strip tease turned tea party mixed with religious and patriotic imagery.
In "Bad Light," audiences will be treated to a series of short absurdist musical theater sketches, including a short film piece, that skewer attempts at perfectionism, expansionism, oblivion, and religion through the lens of dominant cultural values. Through caricatures of white ladies, Austin delivers absurdist overstatements that prompt reflection on the societal pressures of conformity and the quest for an unattainable ideal.
Ecology of Care
offering care and softness to the body in space
Immersive meditation seeking embodied engagement between environment and our beautiful mental health. Created by David Thomson and Kate Watson-Wallace.
The ecology of care is a discussion on how we can reenvision care and structures for artists and the field. Reimagining our art ecology using organic models in nature to build a more resilient and sustainable field that embraces the person and the art with care.
Created for Pipilotti Rist's Salon Series for Gathering: Ecology of Care Lounge at Hauser & Wirth, Manhattan.
Entrance[d]
Performing other people’s stories through embodied reactions
My body, my experience, my own stories stuck inside, sometimes repeating themselves, seemingly beyond my mental control. I wish I could let them out, or give them to someone else. This is a project of giving.
I began travelling as an artist full time in 2016, a dream I had for several years. The year of unbroken travel as an artist was an eye opening one. I began to realise how easy it is to truly let people in when you’re moving from one place to the next - and how lonely it can be when you realise you have to let go again.
In a way, I began to disconnect on a deep level. I could see and feel others’ pain, but there was no commitment involved and I want to dance and bend with my community, or with a lover who makes their way in with clarity and softness.
What’s the story inside of you today? Come, sit with me. Only I will see you and feel your words. And then, at the moment you have finished, I’ll mediate your story, your words and experience through dance, voice or song.
Feeding Uncertainty
An ongoing series of potlucks joining people together through suspension of dis/belief and uncertainty. More here.
Ha-Do Migration
Butoh Piece with Choreographer Tadashi Endo in the Lower East Side
Held at the Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Garden in Manhattan, Ha Do-Ma Migrations was choreographed by Butoh choreographer Tadashi Endo. A site-specific garden performance, Ha-Do Migrations was choreographed in memory of migrants who die in sea passages.