Quiet & Control
In September 2024 Quiet & Control was presented at a Sotheby’s Institute event in conjunction with the Volta International Art Fair. The performance featured the artist slowly pulling a 24-foot-long poem about government suppression of free speech from the artist’s mouth while standing beneath a moving eye, dressed in handmade judicial robes. The work paid homage to John Quinn, co-founder of the Armory Show, key supporter of the National Arts Club, and attorney for W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
Preparation for this piece involved numerous writings, reading of the book “The Man From New York”, Studying Yeats, Joyce letters with Quinn on reserve at the New York Public Library. Study of legal cases involving playwrights and artists for whom Quinn advocated.
Hand made costume: Taffeta Judicial Robe
Poem: Hand Written on Silk
