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Stage, 12' x 12' x 8', maple plywood, 2021

As a result of the pandemic, networked performance practices have become a critical part of my creative and teaching processes. I believe that performance art needs to align with technology art, or else risk becoming a relic of video art in the 20th century. For my exhibition at Danforth Gallery I present Stage, a modular, twelve by twelve-foot, site-specific inverse pyramid installation. Filmed via a livestream camera from above, the structure will be temporarily filled with individual performances by myself, my peers and audience members. Exhibited in the sunken gallery floor of Danforth Gallery, Stage combines the minimalism of Donald Judd’s plywood sculptures and Fluxus happenings of the 60’s with the simultaneous isolation and infiltration of digital culture that we have experienced as a result of the novel Corona virus. Although the external structure is twelve feet square, the internal stage is four feet, rendering the gesture of performing within a confined space, or walking around the perimeter of a square, a metaphor for quarantine