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Collaboration with Aki Sasamoto: Exit Art, NYC  2006
hotplates, extension cords, thimble, steel rod, rubber boots, speech

The performer stands in rubber boots filled with water. She is surrounded by a dozen portable hotplates scattered on the floor. Holding a long-handled tool with a tiny thimble at its end, the performer scoops up a thimble-full of water and extends the tool out to a hotplate. As she empties the water, the hotplate steams and instantly the water turns to vapor. As she repeats this activity, the performer vocalizes foods she imagines eating.

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Colossus

August 28, 2014 by jschiff@wesleyan.edu

Collaboration with Aki Sasamoto: Exit Art, NYC  2006
hotplates, extension cords, thimble, steel rod, rubber boots, speech

The performer stands in rubber boots filled with water. She is surrounded by a dozen portable hotplates scattered on the floor. Holding a long-handled tool with a tiny thimble at its end, the performer scoops up a thimble-full of water and extends the tool out to a hotplate. As she empties the water, the hotplate steams and instantly the water turns to vapor. As she repeats this activity, the performer vocalizes foods she imagines eating.

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