Between a Rock and A Hard Place

Performance 

Duration 10 minutes

Performed at Yale Centre for British Art 

2026

Stony creek granite stones, sand/gravel from Guilford CT, desk, chairs, microphones​

Performed by Bendy Sohn, Camille Geise, Namyoung Kim, Izza Alyssa, Mingge Zhong, Xin Tan, Taisha Carrington

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During this performance members of the circulating group periodically made their way to the table to deliver their address to the audience. Each performer told a story, made a comment, or said what felt pressing to be said out loud while moving the stones along the gravel. The noise of the stones on the gravel became a means of self-imposed censoring. The work addresses the tension between the urge to speak and the simultaneous urge to obscure, protect, or withhold. The audience heard fragments of phrases and words with the friction of the stone.

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