Aureole

Concept

In 2015 my 200 word Artist Statement said

“I am a performative body creating actions, images, and objects. Central to my work are pattern, meditation and repetition. The observable parts of the practice leave the viewer with an acute sense of time and duration. My choreographies explore the liminal and circuitous pathways of physiology, biology, and psychology, where mental order and disorder are often at the crux.”


My Mother is a Hoarder. I grew up in a hoarders home.

Hoarding Disorder (OCHD) is a mental disorder situated in the “Anxiety Spectrum of Disorders” chapter of the Diagnostic and Statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th edition. it’s the excessive collection and retention of any materials to the point that it interferes with day-to-day functioning. It can create a hazard or a potential hazard for the individual and or others as it did for me and my sisters. Hoarding frequently develops into a vicious cycle where individuals literally become trapped in their own homes due to the sheer amounts of detritus and clutter that typically amasses. The excess often results in both decreased mobility within the home as well as decreased utility of the home itself.

There is mounting evidence that OCD is a heritable disorder since an individual is twice as likely to develop OCD if he/she has a first-degree relative who has it. This heritability is increased ten-fold if an individual has a first-degree relative who developed the dis-order in adolescence or childhood. Gene research suggests that a region on chromosome fourteen may be linked with compulsive hoarding in families with OCD.

Marina Abromovic said about the history and origination of Durational Performance “In the early 70’s, it was called body art: all performance artists those days had been using their body as the place where the art was being developed”. As a formally trained dancer, I think of the pedagogy of dance and the ideas of embodiment, encoding,repertoire and the body’s re