WEDNESDAY May 24 EVENING Part D

TOP photo: audience dancing with tea towels apres CLEANING AND LOVING (IT) and MORE ...
BOTTOM photo: Todd Janes joins La Dragu in "a few small cleaning gestures"

Part D: Me/Todd & Suzanne in
An Evening of Performative Videos With Talk

I convinced Todd Janes
to join me in a few
performative cleaning gestures
before/during/after
screening of FADO's
CLEANING AND LOVING (IT)
and
MORE CLEANING AND LOVING (IT).

Todd is well-known for his intervention
performance work whereby he pays for
metered municpal parking spaces
on downtown streets but instead of parking a car
he irons in the parking stall (with a cordless iron
or plugging with extension cord.)

By the time we scrubbed the baseboards & floor,
the gallery reaked of Pinesol. In stereo, we skillfully (esp. Todd)
ironed 2 crisp white shirts, The performance ended in a short
X's & O's parade-choreography with tea towels.

Suzanne Caines showed exerpts from her Edmonton performances
at city malls as well as earlier work including MEAT LOAF EXCHANGE,
GO MOOSEHEADS GO, and THE BLUE HAMMER.
There was a quite excellent circle discussion
about Suzanne's work that evolved into a discussion
of the role of documentation in performance work.