these are not my memories
these are not my memories
My contribution to this show was a performance piece entitled These Are Not My Memories for a show about Identity sponsored by Cantanker Magazine at the United States Art Authority in Austin, TX. It dealt with the impending death of my father, culling through what would be the memories I would hold and who I am based on those memories. A large portion of the performance dealt with performing with those memories inside a large glass enclosure with passerby's watching. I sifted through old 35 mm home movies of my family from before I was born. I grew up watching those films and have them engraved in my mind, events I never was alive to see, or people I never met, all seem so familiar to me even now. Through the piece I transition through various phases of my life, wearing layers and layers of my father’s clothes, eventually ending in his pajamas. Various speakers against the glass played backwards recordings of his many sayings and songs he would whistle around the house.
United States Art Authority
Sponsored by Cantanker Magazine
Austin, TX
February, 2009


