20 Years, 20 Secrets
This performance consisted of an audio recording of my voice confessing 20 secrets that I have been keeping on my family's behalf for the past 20 years.
I played the recording backwards so that the audience members could not decipher the secrets, but I was still able to process some of the weight with the audience's witness. With each backwards secret, I poured some ink onto the floor, and cleaned it with a large cloth, then extinguished one of the 20 candles that were lit around me. By the end of the performance, I had 20 ink blotted clothes and each of the candles had been blown out. The intention was to move backwards through time in order to undo some of the weight of having kept these secrets.
I played the recording backwards so that the audience members could not decipher the secrets, but I was still able to process some of the weight with the audience's witness. With each backwards secret, I poured some ink onto the floor, and cleaned it with a large cloth, then extinguished one of the 20 candles that were lit around me. By the end of the performance, I had 20 ink blotted clothes and each of the candles had been blown out. The intention was to move backwards through time in order to undo some of the weight of having kept these secrets.
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