Performance

unblinking interior (2025)is a meditation on intimacy, memory, and the shifting borders between the private and the performed self.

Born out of the isolation of the pandemic, this work weaves together journals/ing, audio diaries, documentary traces, and performance video.

Through these intersecting mediums, personal narrative becomes both archive and performance, an ongoing dialogue between reflection and embodiment.

The video anchors this exploration in an unfixed temporality, where emotion and time move in partnership.

This piece is an exploration of the cannibalistic nature of the self that wants and needs and the self that protects and serves, between vulnerability and self preservation.

Image courtesy CPR. Photos By Elyse Mertz

home (2023)
began as a sudden emotional “download”
combining experimental video montage with live performance to explore memory, grief, family and loss.

Pairing fragments of personal memory with the soundscape of “Home” by FKA twigs, the performance centers on the unspeakable feeling of loss that one is powerless against.

Dressed as a clown and moving through a field of daffodils, the performer navigates themes of regret, sacrifice, and the lingering ache of those left behind.

no education (2020)confronts identity as a culturally constructed condition shaped by exclusion and violence. Growing up as a Mexican American child in a predominantly white, rural community, the artist’s sense of self was formed by racism, fetishization, and conditional belonging.

The performance examines how these narratives were reinforced through education and nationalism. By reflecting on the violence embedded within both Mexico and the United States as nation-states, the artist rejects the idea of identity rooted in statehood, instead confronting the systems that produce and sustain exclusion.

In performance, the artist uses her own body as a site of reclamation and critique, inscribing onto her skin the words once used against her. Through this act, the piece exposes how institutions shape identity while also challenging the viewer to confront the violence embedded within cultural belonging, nationalism, and the making of the self.

step 1 (2023)
emerged from the temporary rupture of quarantine during the COVID-19 Pandemic, this interactive performance invites participants to engage in a simple but repetitive action without knowing what will come next.

The performance highlights how stepping away from ordinary routines revealed their redundancy, only for many of us to return to them without question. By slowing participants down and removing the promise of forward movement, the piece exposes the tension between our desire to avoid discomfort and the many discomforts of everyday life we’ve learned to accept.

The piece mirrors the emotional rhythm of depression and the routines required to survive within systems of labor and obligation, performing the same actions again and again in order to meet basic needs. Through this structure, the work reflects on life under capitalism, where daily effort is framed as progress while often feeling circular and absurd.

Photos courtesy of Natasha Gornik