16frames

16frames stemmed from the desire to transform daily actions into performance. Over the course of 16 weeks, I committed to performing actions seen as mundane, using a street photobooth as the performative space, which also doubled as the performance registration: each performance would be recorded in 16 images.

Over the course of the project, actions went from the quotidian to the absurd, influenced by events or impulses that drove the process into new paths. While some maintained the original premise, other actions approached the form of a political manifesto or even more traditional performance art. These deviations are just as crucial as the original impulse, adding to the process of canvassing the limits between action and performance.

Each action was enacted just once. The recording process creates an extra layer of intertextuality, between photography and performance; a still frame of the performative act, which documents but also interferes, and is, therefore, integral to the work.