Own the Shadow/Share the Toxicity — 2019
Own the Shadow/Share the Toxicity is an instruction-based collaborative performance, with its first iteration taking place in Chicago, IL in the summer of 2019.
The performance asks us to consider our relationship with one another, how we negotiate our needs, and what our responsibility and identification might be to the bodies of water that surround us .
In this performance, the public and I sat together as we washed each other’s hands with soap made of dirt from Iran, and water from the (“polluted”) Chicago River while taking turns in saying the mantra: “ I’m Sorry, Please Forgive Me, I Love You, Thank You”