installation/performance 2023.
Post-consumer fur garments, paper, paint, ceramics, animal pelts, audio, 2 performers.
Luxury Goods is an installation activated by performance that explores humans relationship
with animals. The work reflects upon fur and other commodities related to social status and economic power.
Exhibition/Installation/Performance 2021
Exhibition overview of a performance series founded and directed by Laure Drogoul. Located at Maryland Art Place, the project was conceived as a place to experiment with new forms of art making and challenge expectations. Starting in 1989, the project presented hundreds of local, national and international artists. The 14Karat Cabaret Exhibition in Maryland Art Place’s Gallery featured installations, ephemera, photos, posters, performing objects and video of the history of the project
Garment Bag(hag)
performance/intervention 2019
fabric, thread, filament, eye protection mask, hundreds of recycled dry-cleaning bags and wire hangers. Presented as part of Art in Odd Places:Invisible, NYC
Garment Bag(hag) considers the afterlife of human-made materials. The performance is a response to the copious amount of single-use plastic that is used to swaddle clean clothes in the cleaning industry. The flimsy clear bags are exempt from our national plastic bag bans including CA, NY, Hawaii, and most recently in Baltimore, MD. Our urban landscape houses multiple dry-cleaner establishments that generate hundreds of polyethylene, single-use plastic bags daily. Once removed from the garment, the bags are immediately thrown in the trash and end up in landfills, where each bag lasts for over 1000 years, with an environmental legacy that may last forever.
During the performance, I embody the spirit of plastic past. Wearing a garment made of re-purposed plastic bags and walking the streets from cleaner to cleaner, I offer a hanger and a garment bag as a reminder of possible solution. “Garment Bag(hag)” reflects upon the daily routines of domesticity and the hidden consequences of the cleaning establishments that effect our environment.
installation/performance 2019
neon sign, neon lighting, clothing rack, wire hangers, filament, collected used dry-cleaning bags, sound, 4 performers. The work is an installation by day and in the evening a participatory theatrical event. This installation, located in a gallery storefront, takes the form of a conceptual dry cleaner shop. Composed of thousands of low density polyethylene (the clear plastic used to package “clean” garments). The work reflects on the ubiquitous cleaners of our urban landscape and emphasizes the ever growing problem of LDPE plastic #4 and the use of perchloroethylene, a known toxin, to clean wearables.
(dirty~clean)Cleaners is activated with intermittent performative events. The installation considers the after-life of human made materials related to domesticity. During the performance, Sisyphean cleaning clerks endlessly fold, process and roll the ghosts of our laundry.
