Drawing Attention
A durational, participatory performance work, 2017-ongoing
This work is based on a simple set of instructions that invite participants to bring their focused attention to one work by an artist whose art is in the museum but in some way marginalized (location, presentation, overlooked in docent tours, etc.) and bring their own attention to that work. My experience of performing this work and casually tracking museum visitor behavior has yielded an emphatic, yet not surprising, outcome: as I bring my attention to the work, others are inspired to do the same. In the course of one performance where I gave my attention to City Landscape, a painting by Joan Mitchell, three times as many people stopped to study the work as well. 

There are many ways to advocate for women and others who are marginalized in the art world. This performance work offers one approach which is meditative and political in a quiet but powerful way.