'no release' (2025) - performance 30 mins
 

The Adelaide Salon

Performance: 'Artist in Bed'

 

I created a performance, installation and sound piece that invited an audience member to be in the bed while I was kneeing at the foot of the bed and whispering to them. I  connected to the participants via a small broadcasting device (a cup and string telephone) so that I can speak and sing directly to the participant without others hearing, creating a personal and intimate moment/relationship between artist and audience. Whispering is a powerful device that focuses attention, communicates secretly and intimately.

 

Art serves to make the invisible visible. Beds can be lonely and sad spaces. They are private and rarely public. This performance will highlight those moments when one can’t sleep, when one is alone, late at night, restless, and reflecting on being outside and yet transfixed in the personal inner world and the sub-consciousness. 

 

Around the bed I created an installation of objects, drawings, books and CD’s. The objects relate to the activities people tend to do while being unable to sleep, reading poems and self-help books, listening to romantic music, writing and drawing in sketchbooks. I was positioned in a childlike praying position, on a decorative church kneeler.