Melting Time Pieces

When I consider notions of time in performance art, I think of water. Water transitions to ice and vapor depending on the temperature of its environment. In Melting Time Pieces, I solidify performance time as ice, re-examining the vocabulary of my past performances in the form of ice, for example, a chain of bones, a hallah dress, and thorns. I cast these objects in ice and hang them for display, letting them rhythmically dissolve into puddles. Each of these frozen sculptures embodies a waiting-to-happen performance and the fragile temporality of its current state, presenting the deformation and liquidation of performance over time, measuring performance time in buckets of water. 

My melting time pieces are durational objects, which I repeatedly cast in ice until the molds disintegrate.