"Playing with sand in the river" 2020
- Fredrikstad
A conceptual-based performance, reflection on the COVID-19. It is a 12-hour durational Vimeo live streaming work, focused on how to share personal and universal stories during the unsettling period. It is a domestic artwork about finding the relationship between “clean” and “unclean”. The work committed to a 12-hour durational process; a reflection of how the world is currently locked in a time of durational waiting. The actions include deep cleaning activities, pre-recorded verbatim text that collected from the virtual sources news reports, facebook posts, public interviews etc which related to lonely feeling. The event was open to all ages, audience was free to enter and leave the live streaming at any time during the 12 hours, they would find a body cleaning the living room constantly. It has silent work, akin to a fasting ritual. Fasting is a spiritual practice washing over different thoughts to give space to pray for something special. This time the artist is praying for the world to be normal and healthier soon.
"Borderline" - 2019
Borderline is an installation, staged in 2019 in Fredrikstad. Inspired by Mary Douglas Purity and Danger (1966), the performance reworks ideas of purity and pollution and the contested boundaries between the two: the social dirt and the real dirt, and how can I wash it, it’s all about clearing and erasing”. For the duration of the performance, I was completely covered by a white veil and for three hours, I keep erasing, washing, and cleansing white flour on the floor with my body, moving forward. The flour becomes a metaphor.
"Marching dance" 2018
- Fredrikstad
An experimental collective painting dance installation. The work reflects on protest theme. The audience are invited to walk into the white room and welcomed to join the collective dancing, asked to find the special memories that connects them to individual response towards different protest against social injustice. The space offered colores to play with, which represents as metaphor of transformation material, gives an access to open the personal and universal stories then guides into the collective dancing situation, where everyone is sharing stories through movement. There are viewer and doer meeting moment, happening at the same time and at one place.
"Mud" 2016
- Isegran Fredrikstad
The performance would take place in the hours before the sun goes up and leads into dawn. MUD! is derived from ‘Jouvay’, a road march of renewal, in the surreal darkness before the dawn, which ushers in the annual pre-lenten Trinidad Carnival. In the performative ritual the performers revisit crucial incidents in their lives, in the presence of their group/audience/witnesses through dance, song, dialogue, gesture, masks and direct audience relation.
