About
‘I said, “I wo(a)nder and I mingle’ is a love letter to my home in the distance – a home that no longer quite feels like home. A multidisciplinary solo performance exploring themes of world-building and memory keeping, through the lens of the city’s ubiquitous being, a pigeon. Using over 50 rolls of masking tape, I construct a dynamic architecture that is both a museum and nest: a place akin to home. The performance combines structured improvisation with spontaneous creation, as I navigate the space embodying the movements and behaviors inspired by a pigeon. Through this interactive exploration, it invites the audience to a world that is only as fictional as the pigeon herself and asks – where do we live? And how do we live? It is an attempt to reclaim lost intimacy and compassion, yearning to lead life with love in difficult times.
*Excerpts (visual/casebook) available upon request.
Artist Statement
“A nest-house is never young. Indeed, speaking as a pedant, we might say that it is the natural habitat of the function of inhabiting. For not only do we come back to it, but we dream of coming back to it, the way a bird comes back to its nest, or a lamb to the fold.
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If we return to the old home as to a nest, it is because memories are dreams, because the home of other days has become a great image of lost intimacy.”
– The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
To all the memories and people that I love
``wildly energetic and precisely calibrated movement.``
“There is delight and pause and discovery and comedy, but all the whimsy points to something profound.``
