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CHRONIC DEADWEIGHT is an 8-hour performance where I metaphorically carried my emotional baggage. For six and a half hours I repetitively paced carrying bags filled with rock salt. Over time the bags sustain damage with small holes leaking the rock salt on the floor. I sat intermittently and attended to the damaged bags refilling them with rock salt from the floor. During the last hour and a half of the performance, I swept the salt away into piles and ultimately dispersed the salt by mopping the floor, clearing my dead weight.
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Select Images from Chronic Deadweight, Performance, 2015, Mcknight Art Center, Wichita State University
Chronic Deadweight Film from Performance, 2015, 300lbs. Rock Salt, 8hrs. cyclical performance.