Process as Performance

These selected works engage their process as performance. The process of making these works, which entails confronting internalized struggle, inevitably becomes performance. Both tangible and intangible qualities of the body are stripped and used and picked apart. The body becomes grounds for political questioning.

Not only does my body become a part of these performances, but also the bodies and actions of family members—as extensions of mine. The quotidian rituals which we otherwise choose to overlook are isolated in these works. Actions and words are repeated over and over in search of physicality.These are actions that exaggerate my yearning to feel American, to feel it as a physical presence; and let it not escape from my body. It is through this performance that my body, as a colored being, is pulled between anonymity and American identity.