PULLING AT THE STRINGS OF RESISTANCE

Pulling At The Strings of Resistance was performed live at MORA Museum, September 2025, as a corresponding piece alongside She Is Not A House. With artist and friend, Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar as the Veiled Figure, representing the patriarchal standards women have been expected to adhere to throughout history. We danced together, in a push and pull, while my Caged Bird, the masked archetype of yearning and freedom, tangled back and forth between escape and compliant stillness.

–Documented by Jeffrey Demos, Joanna Downing, and Eve Rafael.

LIVE PERFORMANCE STILLS

Performed live at MORA Museum, Jersey City NJ (2025), with Christy E. O’Connor as the Caged Bird Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar as the Veiled Woman.