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Afterwards – Part I


(I practiced singing and dancing as I untangled my hair.  This is me in 1993.)

How Do you feel?
I’m not good at finishing things.  I still haven’t watched the last episode of HBO’s True Blood, which ended last year.  I was waiting for “the right moment” to watch the finale, but it never came.  I just never wanted the show to end.
Now it’s time for me to close out my birthday performance (which was 2 weeks ago).  Right after my performance, my friend Hilary asked me,“How do you feel?”
I answered automatically, “I’m glad it’s over.”
I thought about what I just said and I took it back immediately, “Wait… actually I’m not glad that it’s over.’
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1:59 AM

I do not have a good memory.

I have two examples that play a huge role in my upcoming piece.  1. I remembered the 1993 dance recital as a ballet dance, it is tap.  2. This next example is more of a fault in my logic, rather than my memory.  I did not graduate elementary school in 2003.  That would make me…  23/4?  There is my other deficit, math.  This is the year my brother graduated.  I made this realization after savagely dismantling a VHS camera. The tape became stuck after the camera had died forever so the cassette door needed to be forcibly ripped off.  I had to call a childhood friend to confirm that we actually had sung “The Greatest Love of All” at our graduation in 1999/2000?  I wanted to make sure that I didn’t create a false memory.
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May 22, 1993

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“I look confused”
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Memories (1996-2014)

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Performance Reel

Performance reel 2013-2014.

Feminine Steak

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Performancy Forum “Contraception and Contraband” at Panoply Performance Lab

July 14, 2014

Lumen Arts Festival – Baby Pool

@kieramk
“This girl flailed around in her swimming pool before screaming that there wasn’t enough water, then cut it up with an electric knife….. She then used the knife to cut a fat steak in half, threw it on the floor a few times before dancing around with it, and then screamed about wanting to swim before sitting down to cut her swimmies up. #lumen #lumen2014

@mandyoaklander
“No water in the pool but she threw raw meat in there and rolled around and screamed then popped it with a saw. That’s art!”

Lumen Arts Festival- June 28, 2014

Lesson learned : Salt in an open wound is painful.

Emotional Biology


Performance Heart – Pussylicious at Muchmore’s
Curated by Courtney Leigh Novak
April 28, 2013

Cake Performance

Cake Performance

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