CODES
Collaborative performance and chapbook. Printed by Awkward Ladies Club, Oakland, CA.


2018–2019
In collaboration with JJ Bozeman and Gu Wei

PERFORMANCES
Museum of Impact, Brooklyn Public Library, NYC
Little Berlin, Philadelphia
By the People, Halcyon Arts, Washington DC

2020
In collaboration with Clarice Tara Cuda and Karla Lagunas

PERFORMANCES
Sunset Park, Las Vegas

CODES is a collaborative performance that explores flag handling rituals. The project implements the steps of hoisting and lowering an invisible flag following the rules of display and care found in Chapter 1 Title 4 of the United States Code.  Additional interpretations were subsequently woven into the existing protocol, referencing acts of respect, grief, denouncement, and protest informed by interviews with community members, including active and former military service members. The pantomime is performed along with a conceptual composition by Gu Wei entitled History, which plays upon themes of chance through the randomization of notes from the Star-Spangled Banner.

A MANUAL BY CODES is a written assembly of thoughts, notes, and visual research related to the performance.