Sanded Steps, Standing Over Stones - Resting, Walking, Place-Making - Montreal, 2018

<i>Sanded Steps, Standing Over Stones</i> is a live art work that rethinks ‘trace’ and ‘event’ in historical––and ongoing aporetic––situations that become self-effacing and unhappening. It uses self-effacing gestures such as the sweeping of sand, and audience participation in enunciating found-words from texts and slogans, to trace cultural revolutions and social demonstrations from May ’68 to Occupy––and asks whether such events insist or desist in happening today.<div><br></div><div>This item contains photographic documentation and video footage of the second iteration of the art work, performed at <i>Resting, Walking, Place-Making: How Do We Talk About Invisible, Liminal Spaces in Art? </i>in Montreal in 2018. It also includes a copy of the texts read by audience members as part of the performance.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Photographs and films courtesy of Rojin Shafiei. Used with permission.<br><br>The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.</b><br></div>