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Works left to right:
1. Self Defeating Lying Archive (iv), Paris, 2008-9. Performance with degradable thermal paper and fax machine.
2. Self Defeating Lying Archive (i), New York, 2007. Performance with degradable thermal paper and fax machine.
3, 4, 5. These Sandcastles (Ces Chateaux de Sable), Paris, 26.11.08. Performance with wall drawing, sugarcraft and subsequent erasure (Sugarcrafter: Isla Biss)
6. These Sandcastles (Ces Chateaux de Sable), Paris, Nov 2008 - Jan 2009. Aftermath of performance.
7, 8. These Sandcastles (Ces Chateaux de Sable), 2009. Documentation of performance.
9. Performance Architecture Lecture from The Detroit Project, May 2009. Performance at Sin Podium, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading. Extract from audio below.
10, 11. Performance Architecture Lecture from The Detroit Project, September 2010. Pecha Kucha Performance at Inspace, Edinburgh.
12, 13. Conscientious Objectophile, June 2011 at Archipelago, curated by Gary Stevens, CGP London. (Work by Helena Bryant, foreground)

This Woman to This Wall

We are here to connect this woman to this wall.
If anyone has perhaps any object, objectophile, objection to.
This person plus wiring, plus china dogs, plus boxes.
Of wigs. Plus.
Plus a large poster of psychiatrists. (What is the collective noun for psychiatrists?) Plus filing cabinet drawers. Plus electrical cabinet. Plus table. Plus thick furry blanket.
This woman to a brain in a jar plus Delftware.
Plus dishes stacked. Plus transparencies strewn.
On this day a union of.
A paper towel dispenser to this woman. Plus checked floor tiles. Plus a quote from Hoarders USA.
Vinyl gloves plus a paper clip. To be your lawful wedded.
Documents.
Microscope, candlestick, chairs.
Plus three cut-up figures from Space 1999.
An exchange. To have and to hold.
I now pronounce you Woman and Wall.

This Woman to This Wall
Video clip of performance at Café Gallery Projects, London. Additional performer, Steve Richards. 16.07.2011



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