PERFORMANCE > The Rule is Love #4 (with gaze and no object), 2018

The Rule is Love #4 (with the gaze and no object) was a part of the 2018 exhibition "Radical Women: Latin America" at The Brooklyn Museum. Unable to see or speak, I was bound by rope while two performers wearing bear masks pulled me down to the floor. My one rule was to keep getting up. The audience’s rule was to dance with me in order to prevent the bears from pulling me down. Layered into the performance were aspects of the historical formation of the gaze within museums where people of color were treated like carnival side shows on display. The impact of the gaze begins here.

Video documentation can be found at New York University Libraries, Hemispheric Institute