Hours Hours, is a site-specific installation and series of durational performances, exploring invisible feminine labor, memory and power dynamics. The protagonist, Noname, is an avatar, who constructs and inhabits spaces and objects, through which she occupies a territory of futile, repetitive and absurd routines, gestures, rituals and conditioning.
Hours Hours, 2019, found objects, acrylic, beach ball, clothing rack, canvas, fabrics, chair, toys, performance, 12 hrs. Pratt AIR. Photos: Alex Sullivan.
Hours Hours, 2019, 13 mins, filmed at Pratt Institute Fine Art Department Studio Residency
Round its Gilt Cage, 9 mins, 2019
Round its Gilt Cage, 2019, performance, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY. Photos: Alex Sullivan.Round Its Gilt Cage. ”Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” Mary Wollstonecraft. Round its gilt cage is a mixed media project which explores the current threat to women’s autonomy through the study of a narrative of one of the most pioneering advocates of women’s rights, equality and education: Mary Wollstonecraft. By employing painting, video and performance, the project attempts to time travel and construct a bridge between contemporary political assault on women’s lives and historical oppression.