Solo Performance Works  

The three works in this category show a more personal trajectory.

These works are also not truly 'solo' in that collaborating or working with other artists has been central to making them.

_Selected Works

Taipei Remix

Not the Sound Bite!

Untitled Solo

__About These Works
The three works here represent different periods in my practice, but I see them as the visible part of a personal trajectory through performance and also as ground for my political and ethical ideas.

History of Development
The earliest untitled work in this series was developed at what is now PACT Centre for Emerging Artists in the inaugural year or the Vacant Room program which provided an artist or group with space and a mentor. I chose to work with Nigel Kellaway to make this work investigating the co-creation (the relation of self to the world) of femininity. Already in this work I was exploring working with the audience in the same space to draw out this sense of co-creation and implication of the viewer as active.

The second work Not the Sound Bite! is also part of the Where Art & History Collide series. Within this work I tackled the tricky question of communicating politically in a much more public setting, in The Domain, Sydney. Again, this work created space for the audience to be active without being forced to participate and developed the idea that political agency can be questioned and developed through art.

The third and most recent work Taipei Remix feels much more subtle and personal while still being deeply concerned with questions of agency which are played out again in the physical structure of the performance where the audience and I inhabit together a dense environment of projected images. This work shows the world through my eyes and other senses though holds itself from coalescing into narrative or being a statement of identity.

Working with others
I see these works as solo works as I did not ask others into the process to develop ideas with me, but rather to develop the ideas I had. However, I could not have made these works without the support of others, both in practical terms and just as I find life and art-making better when it is shared.

Between the second and third work in this series I resisted making solo work and wished to put my energy into collaborating with others. This particular decision had to do with seeing myself as a human being in relation to the world and others and not as an isolated ego. However, I have been coming to the point of giving more value to my own contribution and the strength and power in what it is I can do.