Performance #4 Participation
5/10/21 10pm
For this performance, I used the participation of my partner and friend to help me collect materials for a collage. Those pieces created a 3’x4’ mixed media collage that was inspired by the artist, Hannah Hoch. I was having a hard time coming up with the participation aspect of my piece, but I felt as if it was a really strong symbolic piece, in the end. We all spent a few hours peeling through old magazines and cutting out whatever we wanted to contribute to the collage. This made for a really fun time hanging out, eating ice cream and being creative together. With all the isolation from covid-19 it really was such an affecting event to spend time with friends and have a piece of work to go with it. After we all cut out a good pile of materials, I arranged them on a prepared canvas with modge-podge. That part was harder than I expected so I stayed up for a while trying to incorporate all the pieces. It definitely was challenging to harmonize all of our pieces because all three of us had our own idea of what we were picking, but I thought that definitely added to the performance focusing on how our individual choices could be put together in a coherent beautiful piece of art. This piece is an existing tangible memory for this event although a small memory, really means a lot when I look at it.















