Live Performance
I am Sitting in a Room- Alvin Lucier response
Dance
March 2022
This piece was made in response to Alvin Lucier’s sound piece “I am Sitting in a Room” which rerecords his voice until all that is left are frequencies. It takes 45 minutes for this process to unfold. To accompany this sound piece, I repeated the same dance phrase each time he rerecorded the statement. Between each set, I cut a little bit of my clothes off until there was nothing left, similar to his voice. Over my body was projected a sped up time lapse of rotting fruit, playing with multiple elements of time. This showed the process of time stripping something down through repetition and distorting the nature of things with my clothes, the fruit disappearing, and Alvin’s voice becoming nothing but frequencies.
Home
Performance
October 2020
In collaboration with my sister, Katie Giovale, who is a dancer, performer, and aerialist. This piece was a drive by performance piece organized by The Interference Series, a performance group in Flagstaff, AZ. Because it was not possible to house a performance indoors due to COVID, this piece took place outside as audience members drove by. There were 10 artists, Katie and I being one of them as the audience drove through town to visit fantastic front yard exhibitions.
Toxic
Performance and Video
May 2019
Many of the water in this world has been obviously and not so obviously contaminated by human impact. “Toxic”, explores the seen and unseen toxicity in water, and the obvious yet often unseen nature of climate change and waste. It explores how this change affects our everyday lives in altering resources like water, how it is both subtle in the moment, and obvious over time. This video is a video I projected onto a wall and danced in front of it, manipulating the image. At the end of the performance I drink from a glass of water to ground the audience in the present. I also discuss the toxicity of Lake Michigan, a lake 5 minutes away form where I was performing. This also brings the audience to the present here and now, highlighting that human impact on the planet, on water, is not an abstract or distant concept, but something that is being dealt with in the here and now everywhere