In preparation for upcoming circumstances (2017)

Fig 1. Installation of video into classroom space following the dimensions established in the original performance in Schoenberg's own basement

Fig 1. Installation of video into classroom space following the dimensions established in the original performance in Schoenberg's own basement

Fig 2. Still from video

Fig 2. Still from video

Fig 3. Documentation of the modified basement space

Fig 3. Documentation of the modified basement space

Fig 4. Documentation of the modified basement space

Fig 4. Documentation of the modified basement space

"In preparation for upcoming circumstances" manifested in two forms. Originally the artist did a performance piece in which, based on the dimensions found within an nuclear safety pamphlet from the 1950's discussing how to build a fallout shelter, she taped out the dimensions based on her own basement. This acted as a potential plan for future endeavours, embracing the fear that these types of pamphlets and documents attempted to dissuade through a soft, optimistic language. After this process the space was documented and then occupied in various ways, such as in lying under a bench, mimicing the school drills that existed simelatneously with these other systems of saftey. This was then brought into a new space, by taping off the same dimension and projecting a life sized image of the cowering figure underneath the bench. It hihglighted the futility of these actions as well as implicating the reality of them with an active engagaemtn of the prootcals.