I’ll Follow You, Just in Case,
Performance with walking support belt,
Obrat Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia, 2024

I’ll follow you, just in case, was reperformed at the opening of Rhythms of care, Obrat Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia.

I'll Follow You, Just in Case was reperformed at the opening of Rhythms of Care / RITMI SKRBI at Obrat Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia, in 2024.

I'll Follow You, Just in Case is a participatory performance in which I secure a transfer belt around a participant and accompany them as they move through the gallery. Borrowed from caregiving practice, the belt is typically used to support a person's mobility and safety. Within the performance, it becomes a tool for navigating space together.

The participant leads while I follow, remaining attentive to their pace, movements, and changing needs. Through this act of accompaniment, the work explores trust, dependence, vulnerability, and care as a relational exchange. The performance creates a subtle shadowing effect as our movements become interconnected, requiring constant negotiation and responsiveness.

Drawing on lived experiences of caregiving, the work examines the often-unseen labour of supporting another person. It challenges assumptions about independence and dependence, suggesting instead that care is a mutual process shaped by attentiveness, reciprocity, and embodied presence. By blurring the distinction between leading and following, the work proposes caregiving not as a one-way act of support, but as a shared and continually shifting relationship. Reperforming the works are artists Daria Khrystych, Eszter Kállay and Martyna Miller.