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Created December 2, 2024
I’ll Be There When I Need You
(work in progress, title in progress)
White velvet, batting, antique chair, studio chair, cardboard, staples, packaging tape, sound, and light
I’ll Be There When I Need You examines the cyclical nature of political theater, where power thrives on disconnection, distraction, and performance. In this iteration, a single male figure delivers a continuous address to an implied absence, constructing the appearance of dialogue without reciprocity.
Through projection mapping and a restrained performative structure, the work foregrounds the gestures, power dynamics, and transactional relationships that shape interactions between political institutions and the public. Presence and care are articulated rhetorically, remaining conditional and deferred.
By avoiding resolution, the work emphasizes the recurring patterns of both history and politics, highlighting the ways audiences are positioned within these narratives—as participants in their repetition or as agents capable of interrupting the scene.