a collaborative performance
About changing the world
“Walls” Performance
Next Gallery Lakewood Colorado
July 6th, 2018
Here is what happened
• Each person wrote a word on a brick. It represented something that they wanted to eliminate from the wall. (Some injustice or situation that is structurally wrong today, such as “sexism”).
• They then took the hammer and pounded it into sand.
• Then they carried the dust to the hourglass in the gallery.
• After the dust was added they found another person to participate.
• After the funnel was filled, we gathered and pulled the plug. The sand began to flow from the hourglass onto the floor.
• The pile of sand was left as evidence for the intention to personally do something to change the injustice, for example, VOTE!
Here is what it all means; the wall represents the ways that society or humanity prevents us from our best potential. Much like the walls of the institutions that the suffragists battled to gain the vote. Writing the word onto the brick acknowledges the existence of the injustice named and also setting an intention to destroy or remove that brick. The action of pounding it into dust, makes the participant become part of the solution. Carrying the dust into the gallery and adding it to the funnel hanging in the center of the room is part of the work. The funnel represents the fact that THE TIME IS NOW! We need to take action to create the world as it ought to be. The process of passing the hammer to someone else, represents the organic, grassroots movements that can really change the world. Each person does their part and inviting others is one aspect of participation.
Next Gallery Lakewood Colorado
July 6th, 2018
Here is what happened
• Each person wrote a word on a brick. It represented something that they wanted to eliminate from the wall. (Some injustice or situation that is structurally wrong today, such as “sexism”).
• They then took the hammer and pounded it into sand.
• Then they carried the dust to the hourglass in the gallery.
• After the dust was added they found another person to participate.
• After the funnel was filled, we gathered and pulled the plug. The sand began to flow from the hourglass onto the floor.
• The pile of sand was left as evidence for the intention to personally do something to change the injustice, for example, VOTE!
Here is what it all means; the wall represents the ways that society or humanity prevents us from our best potential. Much like the walls of the institutions that the suffragists battled to gain the vote. Writing the word onto the brick acknowledges the existence of the injustice named and also setting an intention to destroy or remove that brick. The action of pounding it into dust, makes the participant become part of the solution. Carrying the dust into the gallery and adding it to the funnel hanging in the center of the room is part of the work. The funnel represents the fact that THE TIME IS NOW! We need to take action to create the world as it ought to be. The process of passing the hammer to someone else, represents the organic, grassroots movements that can really change the world. Each person does their part and inviting others is one aspect of participation.