Photo credit: Mickey Sanchez

Photo credit: Mickey Sanchez

On August 16, 2019, Hannah Krafcik and I offered an interactive time-based performance centering care practices from our working lives and research. This performance was presented at 912 Julia gallery (New Orleans, LA). 

In preparation for a physically exhausting performance we would undergo the following day, we decided to offer a series of nourishing care gestures informed by and in dialogue with the exhibition “912 + Friends.” Inspired by the exhibition's central curatorial thread of personal relationships and connections, we created a dance influenced by our relationship to one another and the flow of relationships that has propelled us to this particular moment. Attendees were invited to participate by signing up for 5-minute-long, consent-oriented sessions of physical care work, which we offered intermittently throughout the performance.