Breaking Words

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A new iteration of the artist’s renowned 2006 performance for FIELD MEETING, confronts personal and cultural differences through questioning the concept of so-called “truth.” In a poetic call-and-response fashion, audience members offer key words in their lives, which are then written on plates and smashed on the ground by the artist. The work calls attention to a reckoning with mental traps that are set by virtue of all belief systems, societal conditionings, and even education. All of which effect tribulations and failures in cross-cultural interaction