Disconsent: Faith

A durational participatory performance with eyes taped shut

Disconsent: Faith is a live iteration of my broader Disconsent series, which examines the relationships between consent, which often takes the form of a speech act, and its imperfect opposite—dissent—which often exceeds speech to take the form of silence, protest, or other forms of bodily action. In this version, my body serves as an anonymizing vessel. Participants were invited in one at a time, with no knowledge of who came in before them. With my eyes taped shut, I would tell them a story a previous participant shared with me; then, they would share their own story of when they consented or dissented in the context of religion or faith.

Disconsent: Faith was performed at 601Artspace (2024) and at Human Resources Los Angeles (2024) in a private investigator's office.