Entrance number thirteen: enter and fall (slowly but without hesitation). This piece involves the basics of performance: getting on and off the stage. The only way you can get up is when they no longer have power over you or you convince them that you are not a threat. Knock, say, "Do you need clean towels?" To appear, you come from somewhere–it's not TV. When you leave, leave. But we know you're not going.
Cut.
Again.
Come i-n. A preoccupation with trying to create a presence, if only to create an absence when the performer's gone. An interest in everyday drama–changing the composition of a room by entering and exiting.

Photo: Fiona Bowie

from Documents for Performance, 1998
12 titled b/w 40" x 30" photographs, text panel and video
Courtesy Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver