Performance: 56 hours at Concourse Gallery at Emily Carr University Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
I filled a wall space with printed text: MY HUSBANDS AND I NEED A SPACE TO LIE. I stood still in front of this wall four hours a day for 14 days, holding a paper with written words: LOOKING FOR A BED. When audiences walked into gallery, I shouted at them unpredictably as loud as I could with very firm and angry tone: HEY! CAN I HAVE SOME CHANGE? One time I shouted too loud that a young man jumped back with his hands up… 42 people have given me some changes, total $122.65.
It is a protest performance addressing the fact that Emily Carr University of Arts & Design rejected to exhibit my work, “Husbands and I,” at my BFA Graduate Exhibition in 2011. I approached the Graduate Committee couple of times to discuss my project, the answer was there was no space to show such a work. I fought very hard. Finally, the committee assigned me a place that was impossible to install the work. As a result, I decided not show ” Husbands and I” project, but this protest performance.
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