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Performance/ intervention and photographs
Kingston, Ontario, 2001

Description

I was invited to create a performance involving objects in museums. In this piece, I borrowed a dusty 1960’s mannequin from the Royal Military College Museum and took him as his date to the formal graduation celebrations of the the RMC. We attended parades, met military officials, spent a day in Kingston, and went to the prom.

After many adventures in town and on campus, I shared the photos and celebratory cake in a performance on the gun platform at the museum. By taking an artifact on a date, I was proposing an intimate model for engagement with objects, and a way to experience the larger cultural context they emerge from.

The performance was enacted at the Royal Military College campus and in the city of Kingston, Ontario in the summer of 2001.

Exhibition History

• Royal Military College Museum and various locations, performed for Museopathy/Empathology, curated by Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher with the Agnes Etherington Art Foundation, 2001, Kingston