Burden
Medium: Video performance in public space
2019
Burden is a video performance that navigates through the routine places of my daily life in downtown Calgary. As I traverse through the streets, my material body gives presence to a materially absent object. The presence of this object is activated by the ways my body is contorted and constrained to engage the object in different spaces. A non-physical and invisible object comes to occupy real space with palpable presence through the public spaces of my daily route. By giving presence to an absent object, I am performing presence in absence, substance in the invisible, and exploring something in the nothing.