​2014-2023

Take It Lying Down

4:28 min. video, numerous roving actions and relic artwork from those actions.
Sidewalk detritus from numerous art actions from Los Angeles, California, U.S. to Mexico City, Mexico to Brooklyn, New York, U.S. dragged with a handmade grey jersey 22"x8' dress with the artists car tire’s treads printed on the fabric.

The disappearance and separation of the human being inside. The anonymity in the city. What lies underneath the wreckage? 


The disappearance and separation of the human being inside. The anonymity in the city. What lies underneath the wreckage? So many people get lost in the concrete. Homelessness and the working-class low-income residents are too easily ignored and most often road traffic victims; as if the human being is a statue, camouflaged as a part of the cities landscape. I did numerous Islamic prayers around the city of Los Angeles, Mexico City and now New York. When a person prays in a home everyone in that home receives that prayer. Since sidewalks can span through a city and can be a cite for a home; to do a prayer on one section of the sidewalk extends that prayer to the entirety of the sidewalk. This action took place anonymously throughout Los Angeles County from 2014-2016, until the dress and actions where formally filmed and exhibited in 2016. I did several more anonymous and for exhibition, street interactions for 2 more years concluding at Union Station, Downtown, Los Angeles 2018. This dress and its actions where re-energized in Mexico City in 2022 and now in New York in 2023.

Film credits: Original Score, Derek Stein
Camera Operator, Daniel Pinci
Apparel designer and Bodily Protection, Jessica Bey

July 17-19, 2022 Screening and anonymous performance as part of Radical Experiments: Making Space/ Breaking Space, Eyebeam, NYC, New York.

July 15, 2022 Performed with Shannon Kennedy on electric cello as part of Mircofest: dos notes de músic experimental, performance, maestro de Arte sonar y video proyecciones, CDMX, Mexico.

May 2&3, 2018 Film Screening, Davis Film Festival, Varsity Theater, Davis CA.

August 26, 2018 3 hour roving performance with Derek Stein on cello as a part of Changes: Works at Union Station, Curated by Stephen Van Dyck, Presented by Metro Art, Union Station, Los Angeles, CA.

June 3, 2017 Performed with Derek Stein on cello activating the gallery upon entry, in Irrational Exhibits 10th Anniversary: Mapping the Divide. Curated by Deborah Oliver, at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood.

November 20, 2016 Projected on to a building on Spring St., Downtown Los Angeles for LA Road Concerts, World Day of Rememberance for Road Traffic Victims, with LADOT.

January 1, 2016 Video release Take it Lying Down Performance Video, Pico and Albany St, Downtown Los Angeles.

October 25, 2015 3 hour endurance performance in the Schkaff Theater parking lot on Lexington Ave, Hollywood, CA.

October 25, 2014 3 hour endurance performance on Chung King Road, China Town, CA.

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