normanhoward

in the last couple years i have been interested in people's interaction with their lived environment. the relationship between pedestrian and sidewalk... i found the performative in everyday routines, making graffiti in order to humanize architecture, and using video to document highly personal performances with no natural audiences ('racing to the finish line,' and performing family.') current works belong in a body of transition, in the time when one acclimatizes to a new environment. subjective documentaries and story-tellings dealing with the 'other', with interviewing and oral histories their back-bones. when kaprow spoke of performance as research, i don't think this is what he had in mind. but somewhere the dialogical became the interview and video became the documentation. i think the body of work stemming from kibbutz be'eri is a way to document the pea in the mattress, so to speak - that instance that defies and thrives on capitalism's comfy cushion.

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