Empty (Bucket)

(1997)

I drown myself in a shallow bucket as opposed to an endless ocean.

I am inundated by a few drops.

Asphyxiated, I learn how not to breathe.

Suffocated, I learn to answer my own question: is a wound with no trace really a wound or is it simply thirsty?

Formerly titled: Sometimes (Sometimes Stitches Are Necessary).

Presentation History

• Publication, images/text/audio, Wet Water (Let’s Dance) 2xCD, Futura Resistenza (Brussels), 2023

• Performed for Vernissage #55 at Studio 303, Montréal, Saturday December 14th, 1996

• Performed for video during a residency at the Western Front, January 1997

• Screening, Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, 1997

Thanks to Bobbi Kozinuk, Eilleen Kage, Shaun Chappelle, Tereszca, Renée at the Western Front. Still images by Peter Conlin from Studio 303 performance.