Projects
Chasing Tail | 1999 | live performance + audio project + text project
live performance (excerpt)
Chasing Tail was performed at Performathon at AKA Gallery in the winter of 1999. That spring the piece was adapted for the audio complitaion by visual artists "Revolutions", curated by Steve Heimbecker, produced by Video Verité.
Text Projectwhat if I stopped alienating myselfwhat if I weren't so defensivewhat if I get a great job soonwhat if I prove myself a foolwhat if I weren't so naivewhat if I didn't believe I was right all the timewhat if I was right all the timewhat if I wasn't so arrogantwhat if I don't find a roommatewhat if I can't afford to make my workwhat if I didn't blow things out of proportionwhat if I were laid backwhat if I didn't care what people think of mewhat if I don't pull it togetherwhat if I don't recognize the factswhat if everybody else knows something I don'twhat if I could be honest with myselfwhat if I was always cute and fun-lovingwhat if I make the wrong decisionswhat if my judgement is impairedwhat if I really can't rely on anyonewhat if there's something really wrong with mewhat if I started saying what I mean to saywhat if I'm not really an artistwhat if I don't get my work donewhat if I prove myself wrongwhat if I stopped trying so hardwhat if nothing I do workswhat if I just stayed focusedwhat if my body breaks downwhat if I can't explain myselfwhat if I die tomorrowwhat if I've missed my callingwhat if I could keep quietwhat if I'd said something elsewhat if I could be simplewhat if I was more complicatedwhat if I die on the roadwhat if I die wearing dirty pantieswhat if people wanted to spend time with mewhat if I felt worthy of lovewhat if I felt worthy of successwhat if I felt worthy of calmwhat if I felt worthy of peacewhat if I lose my visionwhat if I kill my lungswhat if I couldn't see myselfwhat if I never spoke of myself againwhat if I were really hungrywhat if I gave up smokingwhat if I gave up televisionwhat if I gave up hollywoodwhat if nothing really matterswhat if I've already lost my mind (and don't know it)what if my feet growwhat if I spill coffee in my lapwhat if I am a freakwhat if I am simplewhat if I am normalwhat if the cost of gas keeps risingwhat if we get killedwhat if I just got dressed and walked awaywhat if I never took a photograph of myself againwhat if I never took another photo againwhat if I never made artwhat if I stopped writingwhat if I became a drunkwhat if I'm really not a happy personwhat if I always push people awaywhat if I worry myself to deathwhat if I stopped obsessingwhat if I was a mind readerwhat if I lost my friendswhat if I never really had any friendswhat if there's a firewhat if I became deafwhat if I became blindwhat if I stopped taking the subdominant rolewhat if I believed in peoplewhat if I didn't believe in peoplewhat if I became frigidwhat if I don't feel regularwhat if I'm never hungry againwhat if I've lost my neshemawhat if I'm a lousy jewwhat if I'm a lousy friendwhat if I smash the walls downwhat if I walked for hours in the coldwhat if I lie in bed forever (you have the lovers)what if I'm incapable of lovingwhat if I stopped pretending to be a good personwhat if I stopped pretendingwhat if I stoppedwhat if I die youngwhat if I live long with a broken bodywhat if I live long with a broken mindwhat if I live long with a broken heartwhat if I was a heart breakerwhat if I had real relationshipswhat if I knew what friendship iswhat if I became a truck driverwhat if the world runs out of silverwhat if the world runs out of threeswhat if my feet get coldwhat if I got hooked on cocainewhat if I smoke myself to deathwhat if I try to antagonize peoplewhat if I minded my own businesswhat if I don't change my clothingwhat if I will never be happywhat if this is itwhat if people are incapable of happinesswhat if nothing matterswhat if I never had itwhat if I never empty my ashtrayswhat if all I did was put puzzles togetherwhat if I spend the rest of my life alonewhat if I never come to realitywhat if I chose to live on the streetswhat if noone ever called me againwhat if I quitwhat If I knew why I do the things I dowhat if I vandalized bathroomswhat if I lost everythingwhat if I become pregnantwhat If I never touch anyone againwhat if I pretend I never hear people the first timewhat if I could really become absorbed with somethingwhat if I were through fooling myselfwhat if I decided to fallwhat if I decided not to get upwhat if I never shook it offwhat if I do it some other waywhat if I became unreliablewhat if I really was arrogantwhat if I really was modestwhat if I drop outwhat if I completely withdrawwhat if I completely get involvedwhat if I ignore peoplewhat if I act like I'm in a world of my ownwhat if I became a crazy ladywhat if I wasn't so banalwhat if I didn't want morewhat if I actually had a skillwhat if I actually had a callingwhat if I like reggaewhat if I went out dancing once a weekwhat if I went out dancing seven days a weekwhat if I ignore someone long enoughwhat if I stopped setting myself up for disappointmentwhat if it's all for naughtwhat if I don't eat wellwhat if I get sickwhat if I lose my apartmentwhat if I let my bills gowhat if I go bankruptwhat if I never sell a work of artwhat if I can't wake upwhat if I become paralyzedwhat if I make aliyahwhat if I become frumwhat if I kept kosherwhat if I kept shomer shabbaswhat if I married a man who never saw my pussywhat if I marriedwhat if I never have childrenwhat if I lose my ovarieswhat if I get breast cancerwhat if I go awaywhat if I became a different type of personwhat if noone looks at me with love againwhat if I can't make dowhat if I panic more often than notwhat if I didn't hurt so muchwhat if I really punished myselfwhat if I don't dig my heels in far enoughwhat if a part of me has diedwhat if I bore peoplewhat if the toilet stops flushingwhat if I had a good timewhat if I stopped listening to musicwhat if I enjoy the landscapewhat if I am imprisonedwhat if I put my foot in my mouthwhat if I shutupwhat if I say the wrong thingwhat if I sound stupidwhat if I get a yeast infectionwhat if my allergies keep worseningwhat if I run out of ideaswhat if I can't talk to peoplewhat if I can't figure out how to do somethingwhat if I burn the place downwhat if I get poisonedwhat if I eat bad meatwhat if I get the fluwhat if I get flesh eating strepwhat if I drink too much coffeewhat if I ruin my lifewhat if I misrepresent myselfwhat if I draw blankswhat if I push myself too farwhat if I don't try hard enoughwhat if I get stood upwhat if I become forgetfulwhat if I'm hard to live withwhat if I'm a demanding womanwhat if I'm a woman who becomes crazier with agewhat if I don't get my just rewardswhat if I get stuck in the prairieswhat if I never live in my hometown againwhat if I have to keep movingwhat if I never feel at homewhat if I never feel settledwhat if I lose the things that comfort mewhat if I don't water my plantswhat if I slip on icewhat if I get frostbitewhat if I get wetwhat if someone breaks into my placewhat if my things get stolenwhat if my things get damagedwhat if I overwater my plantswhat if things don't work as plannedwhat if I let go of planningwhat if my balcony falls down from the wieght of snowwhat if I keep getting the fluwhat if I fall while rollerskatingwhat if I don't wash my hands often enoughwhat if I don't care for my toenailswhat if I'm affected by too much caffeinewhat If I can't afford to live wellwhat if I miss my buswhat if I'm latewhat if I don't show upwhat if all I did was play video gameswhat if all I did was write listswhat if I catch a chillwhat if I overboil the chicken soupwhat if I were to exercisewhat if I cut myselfwhat if I get burnedwhat if I had an affairwhat if I had many affairswhat if I didn't bathewhat if I couldn't speakwhat if I couldn't do anythingwhat If I broke ties with my parentswhat if I never sit in a chair againwhat if I don't get paidwhat if I bore myself to deathwhat if I don't read the paper enoughwhat if I don't' realize I'm incompetentwhat if I don't matchwhat if I became foul-mouthedwhat if I annoyed peoplewhat if I didn't brush my teethwhat if I felt goodwhat if I keep running in circles around myselfwhat if I don't do a good jobwhat if I counted thingswhat if I don't countwhat if I'm a loud-mouthed pushy Jewwhat if my brother doesn't continue his Levitical linewhat if women were the priestswhat if my computer crasheswhat if my art is uglywhat if I don't keep up with current eventswhat if an old love re-enters my lifewhat if I tripwhat if I bleached my hairwhat if I shaved my headwhat if collected cool knick-knackswhat if I were really handywhat if I acted funnywhat if I overshootwhat if I became a prostitutewhat if I acted more sillywhat if I jumped around on pogo-stickswhat if I got to stick my face into women's boobswhat if I told people their questions are irrelevantwhat if I can't sit on the same toilet as a fat guywhat If I get rapedwhat if I offer my pussy up for viewwhat if I lost the sensation of touchwhat if I stopped touching myselfwhat if I became a writerwhat if I got to hold all the cocks I wantedwhat if I miss the Oscarswhat if I become a reclusewhat if no one cares about your feelingswhat if I was angry all the timewhat if I let gowhat if its not artwhat if I didn't have rhythmwhat if we all took what was ourswhat if I stopped leaving doubt in peoples' mindswhat if I never leave this placewhat if I'm stuck here foreverwhat if I run out of fuelwhat if I run out of energywhat if it all became very simplewhat if there's nothing to saywhat if I could walk awaywhat if I stopped what if'ing |
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