I fell for a building

Format: Performance
Residency: Artel Residency, Tifa Working Studios, Pune, India
Year: 2016

The artist climbs the crumbling surface of a century old building, a structure that stands in for patriarchal systems and structures of thinking. Attached to the building with a harness and a black rope, they walk the margin of its unsteady old facade, using a tangled bundle of white rope to draw a map of their own journey across it.

The artist's task is to navigate the building, connect different levels of its structure with the white rope, and record the path taken, all while maintaining balance and preventing a fall as the rope disentangles and unwinds.

The title plays on two meanings of falling for something: being tricked into believing what isn't true, and beginning to love someone or something. Running alongside both is a third, ever present possibility throughout the performance, the literal risk of falling from the building itself.