homeLA, Venice, California
End Tasks was an itinerant work that offered grief as a form of deep environmental activism. Through the performance of small rituals, quotidian and surreal, we presented actions and emotional survival drills aimed at honoring what we have, what we will miss and what is to come. Deep activism through grief is offered as a cathartic exercise to reconnect our kinship with the world.
We became plants that grow and die. We wept while chopping onions for a massive mirepoix. We strained to make time move backwards by dancing 1980s Solid Gold routines in retrograde. We became the rising tides, pushing detritus to the open portal of the home.
This activity was supported by homeLA and in part by a grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and by the California Arts Council, a state agency.