Bryant Park Shoeshine, 2016
42nd Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City
For this participatory public performance, I bought a pair of all-white Air Force 1's and received a shoeshine at the stand on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The work embeds itself in the practice of shoe-shining to explore it's material and metaphorical qualities, and it's relationship to aspects of identity, power, and labor.
Drill Meditations, in collaboration with Nicky Smith
On Air Fest, Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, New York
March 2018
For this performance, Nicky and I performed choreographed athletic drills which incorporated elements from various disciplines, including: qigong, boxing, and capoeria. We also created an accompanying sound piece – "We Dem ******" – which served as the score for the performance.
