Bound by Longing II,
Performance
Sydney College of the Arts, 2017
Live Endurance Performance, Before, then and now, Duration 3 hours. The live performance is a live iteration of the video Performance Bound by Longing, 2016.
For three hours, I lift my family photo albums one by one, and as I stack them, the weight grows heavier. I pile the albums on my chest, then lift and balance them above my head. They sway, and it is up to me to keep them steady and move with them to ensure they don't fall. When they slip and fall to the floor around me or hit my body, I pick them up, realign them, and strengthen the stack before lifting and pushing them up again.