Using the gallery as an open studio, I will perform a series of solo and collaborative actions with domestic objects including tables, chairs, tablecloths, dishes and brooms, revealing the often invisible labor of art making and caretaking. The objects and actions will vary from day to day, documented in an accumulative archive of photographs and ephemera. Visitors will be invited to share meals, practice simple magic tricks and experiment with creating and recreating documents of performance.
Unlike traditional magic - where the magician does not reveal their tricks, everything in the gallery is real and revealed. The title comes from a common phrase exclaimed after a glass is broken at a house party. A performance, like a good party, often involves breaking something - a glass, a rule, a social code. Performance relies on a shared (if temporary) belief in the value of process over product, people over objects, and the collective over the individual.