Red Rover (2025)

A performance piece in which the artist and audience play the schoolyard game Red Rover on a field of loaded mousetraps. Only the artist is called upon to run across during the performance.

This is a durational performance designed to end once any of three conditions are met:
1) The artist is physically restrained by the audience. The isolation and pain structure is overcome by the community's action.
2) Another name is called. The empathy of the audience seeks to intervene by replacing who is in the pariah role, the structure remains while the names change.
3) The artist passes out. The performer reaches their physical limit and the role is incomplete(?)

The videos included below are from the inaugural performance of Red Rover at the group show Comparative Catharsis, which was also curated by me.