DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE

SONG OF TENT CITY: Self-designed, 3-month artist residency at city-sanctioned homeless encampment. Artist lived & worked with 100 homeless men & women in the winter, documenting her experiences & fostering collaborations between professional & camp artists. A replica of her camp living quarters featured in a solo show/fundraiser at Tether Gallery in Seattle, 2011. Project archive: www.songoftentcity.blogspot.com

TENDER MOUNTAIN POEMS: 1600-mile solo journey over the Alps with a typewriter. 2018. Video interview shot on location--> https://youtu.be/pIeDf56fY8k

TAHOMA KORA: 65-day, 36-mile, solo, prostrating pilgrimage around Mt Rainier, investigating how we participate in the sacred in the landscape. Supporters supplied daily mantras. Rainier National Park, USA 2011 Photo: Kelly O. / The Stranger

SURROGATE: The artist hugged 50 telephone poles, revisiting past relationships, in 2-hour sessions over 2 months. After each hug, she wrote a letter to the past lover or friend & posted it. Seattle, 2012

BURDEN OF PURPOSE: For one full bardo, 49-days per The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the artist performed a work/rest cycle, inviting participants to lay their burdens to rest with her at Mt Pleasant Cemetery. Collaboration with Haruko Nishimura, 2013. Project Archive at: acontinuouscycle.blogspot.com. Photo: Joe Iano Photography

HUNGER: 15-day water fast, ritual fast breaking ceremony at NEPO 5k Don't Run Performance Art Festival, 15 days audience-fed. Seattle. 2013. Project Archive at: www.thehungeroftheartist.blogspot.com Photo: Steve Lundeen

IN SEARCH OF BAS JAN ADER: 21-day journey in 14' dory on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, with a letter to Bas Jan Ader on her hull. 100 guides piloted her telepathically to the Miraculous and back, 2016

SONNETS IN THE SAND: For 2 weeks the artist led a team of 15 scribes writing all of Shakespeare's Sonnets in the sand at low tide at Kalaloch Beach, WA, 2012. Photo: Rachel Hopkins

LOVE LINE: 30-day, 20-mile walk, looping L-O-V-E in cursive letters across Greensboro, NC with a rotary telephone, collecting & delivering messages of love. Feb 2020. Video interview shot on location--> https://www.greensborocjm.org/

THE WOMAN WHO PLANTED DREAMS: 2000-mile, 5-month journey along Pacific Crest from Mexico to Canada, planting dreams, manifesting our desires. 2014 Project Blog at: http://thewomanwhoplanteddreams.blogspot.com/

108: Artist limited her speech for 108 days to 108 words from one poem by Pablo Neruda, "Poet's Obligation." As an extension of her meditation, she rolled a full set of 108 paper beads every day for 108 sets of mala which she exchanged for physical support. Seattle, 2015

THE BLUE LINE: The artist began her month-long residency by laying 1,500' of blue tape in a line from the front door through the entire building to the roof of at NBBJ Architecture Firm, then crawled through the building writing the architecture. Seattle, 2010. Project Archive at: corporate-poet.blogspot.com/. Photo: Sean Airhart

THE NOT-SO-EASY-CHAIR: Stuffed in an easy chair for 6 hours on King Street in the International District in Seattle, the artist invited people to sit on her & talk about not-so-easy things. NEPO 5K Don't Run Performance Art Festival. Seattle, 2012. Photo: Corey Scherrer.