2024
Durational Performance:
75 minutes
Topielec/Drowner was a ritual as much as it was a participatory artwork; the performance was put on at McBride Contemporain on the occasion of Nuit Blanche.
My tools were paper, scissors, and bowls of water. Visitors were invited to write down something they wished to let go of, and I translated their notes into paper cut-outs that responded to the words. The people who volunteered to write down their worries became my co-conspirators in the process.
One by one, I held the paper cut-outs underwater in basins, until each basin was full.