DIRECTING LIGHT

September 15th- November 15th, 2011

Leo Koenig Inc. in New York, NY 

Installation 

Directing Light onto Fist of Father, Initiation 

Duration: 2 hours 

Performance

Directing Light onto Fist of Father, The Act 

Date: Sept 15th-Nov 12th, 2011

 Location: Leo Koenig Inc. in New York, NY

Duration: 30 non-consecutive days 

Performance

“Directing Light onto Fist of Father“ at Leo Koenig Gallery opened with Initiation. In this performance, I stood with my eyes closed next to a glass shelf in the installation holding the plaster caste of my father’s fist for 2 hours. The Act involved me visiting the gallery on any sunny day, standing outside with a mirror, and directing sunlight into the gallery onto the plaster caste placed on a glass shelf. At the back of the gallery, a 16mm film loop was directed into a mirror bouncing the image of sunlight tracing the contours of the same plaster fist across the wall. Next to this mirror, yellow Turmeric was piled on a glass shelf with an empty chair across from a yellow painting at the entrance. 

My most personal work to date,  I created this at a time when NYC was in protests and Occupy Wall Street was assembled in Zuccotti Park. A time pre-smartphone (audiences were not taking pictures much),  and a time when I used performance to express my political concerns more directly.