Spleen Performance, 2017 (3 hours)  

(with Aaliyah, Carolina Escobar, Nevena White, Emily Poynton)

Inspired by Baudelaire’s Spleen, this three-hour performance draws from the mechanics of photography—where process outweighs content—to examine how technology reshapes human connection. Performed as a looped ritual of gestures and codes, Spleen dissects the social structures that emerge and dissolve through screens, repetition, and curated intimacy.

Echoes of “like,” “block,” “delete,” and “follow” resonate through the performers like a contemporary Greek chorus, exposing the dissonance between connection and disconnection. Through these banal yet potent repetitions, the work turns attention to the everyday choreography of digital existence and the fragmentation of language into binary, isolating loops.

Sacred materials—gold, Oedipal symbols—are paired with the economy of the present: scrolling thumbs, hovering hands, bowed heads. The body becomes both vessel and glitch; a site of longing, performance, and erasure. Spleen meditates on the desire to be seen and the impossibility of truly being held within the echo chamber of a networked world.