Performance 2005-2007
Dressage: 7,437 Kisses (2006) was a 7.5-hour performance in which the artist, dressed in a business suit, repeatedly applying red lipstick, kissed a white wall in vertical lines, moving from a step stool to the floor as the controlled gesture gradually deteriorated through exhaustion. In Work Week, (2007) surveillance footage shows the artist repeatedly applying lipstick and kissing stacks of office paper, which she shreds in a live performance, accumulating into a growing pile; together, the works use repetition, endurance, and feminized gestures to examine discipline, bureaucracy, and the performance of professional labour. Dressage was presented in various venues in Canada and the USA, including in Detroit, MI, at the 2006 Women's & Gender Studies Biennial.
