Lay Will Me,
Artbar, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, Crated by Julie Rrap. 2017

Lay with me, was performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, for 3 hours.

Background video work, It's hard to keep your head above the coffee table, from 2014.

Lay with Me is a participatory performance in which audience members are invited to lie with me for as long or as little as they wish. Each participant and I engage in conversation, mutual gaze, or meditation as I hold them.

When thinking about informal caregiving, the bed and other intimate spaces of the home become sites of performance. The bed is an intimacy space. When a formal caregiver enters to provide functional needs, it becomes a workspace. By inviting strangers into the bed to care for them in a different way—as an offering to connect—we play with the space and its possibilities.