Story Time

Performance for Live-stream (Broadcast Date: November 3, 2020). Stills by Laurence Myers Reese.

“Rather than doom-scrolling through election results all night, I asked participants to lay in bed and let me read them to sleep. The stories I chose evoke fairy-tale tropes to focus on dynamics of power between children and adults, featuring disturbing themes of punishment and peril, but participants found the ritual nevertheless soothing. By chance, only men joined which led to the performance having an unexpected gendered dynamic with maternal resonances.”