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6m of Plinth (2016)
Produced in conjunction with Artspace’s “The Public Body” this performance produced a radical encounter between body, sculpture and plinth. Often considered an inert structure, the plinth was transformed into a volatile wedge that pushed back at the objects it has traditionally supported. The resulting action was a constant negotiation where the body responded to the plinth's new agency and the sculptures in between yielded to the will of these contesting forces.

Photo: Jessica Maurer
Thank you: Jack Tarlinton, Talia Linz and Alexie Glass-Kantor







  • Hello Stranger
  • Waterwalker
  • Test Excavation
  • 6m of Plinth
  • Big Pinky
  • Mapping La Mancha
  • Acts of Exposure
  • Letter to Some Dead Greek Guy
  • Dry Gulch
    • Untold Torments Without Reason
  • Two Sketches for Antipodysseus
  • Terra Australis 750 BC to 2012 AD
  • Tino La Bamba: a Spaniard’s journey to Lismore
  • The Model
  • The Heat is. . .On!
  • Renny Kodgers Quiz Hour
  • Schleimgurgeln: Arrival
  • The Lonesome Receiver

6m of Plinth

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6m of Plinth (2016)
Produced in conjunction with Artspace’s “The Public Body” this performance produced a radical encounter between body, sculpture and plinth. Often considered an inert structure, the plinth was transformed into a volatile wedge that pushed back at the objects it has traditionally supported. The resulting action was a constant negotiation where the body responded to the plinth's new agency and the sculptures in between yielded to the will of these contesting forces.

Photo: Jessica Maurer
Thank you: Jack Tarlinton, Talia Linz and Alexie Glass-Kantor







  • Hello Stranger
  • Waterwalker
  • Test Excavation
  • 6m of Plinth
  • Big Pinky
  • Mapping La Mancha
  • Acts of Exposure
  • Letter to Some Dead Greek Guy
  • Dry Gulch
    • Untold Torments Without Reason
  • Two Sketches for Antipodysseus
  • Terra Australis 750 BC to 2012 AD
  • Tino La Bamba: a Spaniard’s journey to Lismore
  • The Model
  • The Heat is. . .On!
  • Renny Kodgers Quiz Hour
  • Schleimgurgeln: Arrival
  • The Lonesome Receiver

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