THERE IS A DEVIL INSIDE ME, 2015, live performance, TRT: 46:20, Public Space One (Iowa City, IA). Performed for the symposium “THERE IS A DEVIL INSIDE ME: works inspired by Ana Mendieta, presented on the 30th anniversary of her death.” I use a #2 pencil, string, sewing needles, and tattoo ink to permanently mark myself with an image of a piece she made while pursuing her MFA at the University of Iowa’s Intermedia Program. A live feed of the process was projected behind me.
THERE IS A DEVIL INSIDE ME, 2015, live performance, TRT: 46:20, Public Space One (Iowa City, IA).
THERE IS A DEVIL INSIDE ME (view from live feed), 2015, live performance, TRT: 46:20, Public Space One (Iowa City, IA).
Untitled (installation view), 2015, 10 stacks of 1,000 4 x 6” postcards, dimensions variable. Postcards printed with images taken by me on my iPhone on March 3-4, 2013, while trying to find my way back to my studio after having been unknowingly drugged at a concert on the UCSD campus. Latitude and longitude are printed on back. Arranged on floor in accordance with the location in which they were taken relative to each other.
Untitled (L: 32º 52’ 42.6” N, 117º 14’ 18.6” W; R: 32º 52’ 39” N, 117º 14’ 18.6” W), 2015, 10 stacks of 1,000 4 x 6” postcards, dimensions variable.
Untitled (L: 32º 52’ 39.6” N, 117º 14’ 18” W; R: 32º 52’ 42” N, 117º 14’ 18.6” W), 2015, 10 stacks of 1,000 4 x 6” postcards, dimensions variable.
Untitled (L: 32º 52’ 37.8” N, 117º 14’ 18.6” W; R: 32º 52’ 43.2” N, 117º 14’ 18.6” W), 2015, 10 stacks of 1,000 4 x 6” postcards, dimensions variable.
Untitled (map), 2015, approximately 4,250 ft. of red string, dimensions variable, UC San Diego Campus (La Jolla, CA). A red string unites the points I know I reached during the night of March 3-4, 2013. Information gathered from GPS locations of images taken that night.
Untitled (detail), 2015, approximately 4,250 ft. of red string, dimensions variable, UC San Diego Campus (La Jolla, CA).
Untitled (Rape Scene), 1974/2014, live performance, TRT: 47:30, VAF Commons Gallery, UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA). For the first in a series of re-performances, I re-performed Ana Mendieta's “Untitled (Rape Scene)” (1974), wherein the artist is in her apartment, motionless, and hogtied to her dining table, surrounded by blood and signs of a struggle. I re-created this scene in my studio, where I was living at the time.
Untitled (Rape Scene), 1974/2014, HD video documentation, TRT: 47:30, Color, Silent, TRT: 54:00. Video taken by a camera on my bookshelf during the re-performance of Untitled (Rape Scene).
Untitled (Rape Scene), 1974/2014, post-performance installation, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Lo Que Recuerdo, 2014, HD video, Color, Sound, TRT: 02:53. As a child, I took Folklorico lessons. La Negra was the first dance I learned. In this video, I perform all I can remember of that dance today.
Lo Que Recuerdo, 2014, live performance, TRT: 02:53, Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles, CA).